Special Program of Noh Performance

[National Noh Theatre Summer Special]
Kyogen, Rakugo & Storytelling / Waka Poetry Connections

*Performance Schedule
DATE: Thursday, August 29
TIME: 5:30 p.m.

*Title and Main performer
Storytelling: SAIGYOHOSHI・TSUDUMIGATAKI (Saigyo at the Waterfall Tsuzumigataki) / Kyokudo Nanzaemon　
Rakugo: SUTOKUIN (A comic rakugo story about Emperor Sutoku) / Kokontei Kikunojo　
Kyogen: IMOJI (The Letter “I”) / Shigeyama Sennojo (Okura school)
　*Audio guide: No audio guide available.
　*No subtitles

*Admission (Including Tax)
-Front-stage seat 5,700yen
-Side-stage seat 4,600yen (Students 3,200yen)
-Middle-stage seat 3,700yen (Students 2,600yen)

Seating Plan

*Reservation (Telephone / Internet):
Available from: 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, July 10
*Box office Ticket Counter:
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[Tel.] 0570-07-9900/03-3230-3000 (for some IP phones)

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SAIGYO HOSHI・TSUZUMIGATAKI (Saigyo at the Waterfall Tsuzumigataki)

On a journey to enhance his poetry, the priest Saigyo Hoshi stops to compose a waka poem before the waterfall Tsuzumigataki. That evening, he recites the poem to an elderly couple and their daughter who have given him lodging.

SUTOKUIN (A comic rakugo story about Emperor Sutoku)

A young master languishes, unable to forget a woman he happened to meet by chance. His servant Kumagoro searches for the woman, his only clue a waka poem by the Emperor Sutoku.

IMOJI (The Letter “I”)

The master and his servant Taro Kaja come to the Kannon Bodhisattva to pray for a wife. A woman appears, but when asked where she lives, she replies with a waka poem and disappears. The two men can only remember half of the waka poem and are at a loss as to what to do.