Agon no Hoshi Matsuri

平成24年第39回炎の祭典阿含の星まつり 4-4

平成24年第39回炎の祭典阿含の星まつり
平成24年西暦2012年2月11日
京都市山科区北花山
Agon no Hoshi-Matsuri
Agon's Star Festival
February 11, 2012
Kita-Kasan, Yamashina-ku, Kyoto, Japan

平成24年第39回炎の祭典阿含の星まつり 2-4

平成24年第39回炎の祭典阿含の星まつり
平成24年西暦2012年2月11日
京都市山科区北花山
Agon no Hoshi-Matsuri
Agon's Star Festival
February 11, 2012
Kita-Kasan, Yamashina-ku, Kyoto, Japan

平成24年第39回炎の祭典阿含の星まつり 1-4

平成24年第39回炎の祭典阿含の星まつり
平成24年西暦2012年2月11日
京都市山科区北花山
Agon no Hoshi-Matsuri
Agon's Star Festival
February 11, 2011
Kita-Kasan, Yamashina-ku, Kyoto, Japan

平成23年第38回炎の祭典阿含の星まつり 3-4

平成23年第38回炎の祭典阿含の星まつり
平成23年西暦2011年2月11日
京都市山科区北花山
Agon no Hoshi-Matsuri
Agon's Star Festival
February 11, 2011
Kita-Kasan, Yamashina-ku, Kyoto, Japan

平成24年第39回炎の祭典阿含の星まつり 3-4

平成24年第39回炎の祭典阿含の星まつり
平成24年西暦2012年2月11日
京都市山科区北花山
Agon no Hoshi-Matsuri
Agon's Star Festival
February 11, 2012
Kita-Kasan, Yamashina-ku, Kyoto, Japan

平成23年第38回炎の祭典阿含の星まつり 2-4

平成23年第38回炎の祭典阿含の星まつり
平成23年西暦2011年2月11日
京都市山科区北花山
Agon no Hoshi-Matsuri
Agon's Star Festival
February 11, 2011
Kita-Kasan, Yamashina-ku, Kyoto, Japan

平成23年第38回炎の祭典阿含の星まつり 1-4

平成23年第38回炎の祭典阿含の星まつり
平成23年西暦2011年2月11日
京都市山科区北花山
Agon no Hoshi-Matsuri
Agon's Star Festival
February 11, 2011
Kita-Kasan, Yamashina-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Searching for MYTHICAL creatures in Japan.

Fantastic Japanese beasts and where to find them? Hunt for that subscribe button first! But out in Japan there are many creatures both real and fantastical, I find myself on a quest to find two of these such creatures. One being the giant Japanese salamander the other a huge dragon that lies in the clouds.
Will I find these creatures in Arashiyama in Kyoto, Japan? Click to find out!
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Become a Yukester! About Yukendoit.
Welcome! What you are looking at is a former Universal Studios, Halloween Horror Night, Walt Disney World actor/worker youtuber here. I really want to show the world to you! I was pretty inspired by Adamthewoo to get out and start making videos, and now I've left America to do just that. Now I'm out in Osaka, Japan. Living daily life in Japan. But I make adventure videos of exploring strange Japanese locations, theme parks like Universal Studios Japan, and generally showing off life as an American Abroad Jvlogging in Japan. As well I like to make Jvlogs about life in Japan. As I am a former scareactor at Halloween Horror Nights in Florida, I am very interested in the strange side of Japanese culture. Ghosts, Yokai, the Japanese equivlent of Oujia boards, abandoned Japanese buildings, and Japanese haunted houses like the one at Fuji Q Highland it's the longest one in the world!
Why the name Yukendoit? Well I think that you can do it! I'm currently teaching English in Japan and I love it. Patreon patreon.com/yukendoit

Akiko Ochi - E.A.T. 2 Performance Excerpt

Title: Dannoura
An electroacoustic musical work based on Biwa Hoshi's narration of the story of the battle of Dannoura, which was the last clash between Genji and Heike and the climax of the ancient Japanese war narrative Heike Monogatari. Based on this setting, I will perform an improvisation using various sensors etc. built in or connected to a laptop computer.

タイトル「壇ノ浦」（だんのうら）
「日本古来の戦記物語である『平家物語』のクライマックス、源氏と平家の最後の戦いとなった壇ノ浦合戦（1185年）を琵琶法師が語るシーンをテーマにした電子音響音楽作品。これをベースとし、ラップトップコンピュータに内蔵された・あるいは接続された各種センサ等により即興演奏を行います。」

Experiments in Art & Technology 2
UrBANGUILD Kyoto 2014.04.18

Toz - Love Is (Street Live)

This is Italian singer-songwriter, Toz performing his song Love Is at Osgoode Station on May 6th, 2011! I really admire his acoustic music. Great job!

I met him one time waiting for my friend at the station and decided to talk to him. lol!

Check out his channel here:
His website:

LOP-PE Pegasus fantasy

Terry e Leo cantando pegasus fantasy no karaoke no omake

Roving Ronin Report Presents Japanese Biwa Player

Japanese Biwa Player playing Dan-no-ura a song about the last battle between the Heike and Genji clans at a festival for the Heike clan:


Dan-no-ura was the site of the last battle of the Gempei War in which the Heike clan was finally destroyed by the Genji clan.

Centuries later, legends say a blind biwa player was tricked into playing for the restless spirits of the Heike. He barely escaped with his life paying the price of his ears being ripped off. This story is known as Hoichi the Earless and appears in the Kwaiden.

Around the 4 minute mark, she starts shredding some wicked licks like a geisha Jimi Hendricks! I half-expected her to set her biwa on fire at the end. The accompanying thunderclaps were more than appropiate.

Towards the end a thunderstorm struck suddenly and ominously. She was playing the song in Yunishigawa in Tochigi where Heike refugees fled to in hiding. The thunderstorm gave the performance an eery supernatural feeling. It stopped not long after she finished.

The title music is by the exotic ones:


The band cameo is a Japanese-based group - the Sushi Cabaret Club:

The Heian Fuuunden (平安風雲伝) - Introduction (SNES/SFC)

Original Air Date: August 1st, 2009

What to say about this game...? It's made in 1995 and published by KSS, the same group that published games like Mujin Shima Monogatari and Bing Bing! Bingo. Uhh...darn, it's hard to say things when you upload the weirdest stuff...well, it is said that the game is developed by Natsume, but I'm not too sure if that makes me feel good in the case of this game.

The game takes place during the Heian period, meaning that the game takes place anywhere from the year 794 to 1185. The game starts with a rebellion that is on the rise and a man named Kamohiro is passing the message along to local villages. After some talking, Kamohiro decides that it is best to talk to someone more powerful than himself to help deal with the rebellion, so he talks to a man named Seimei Yasube. Apparently, the rebellion will destroy Kyoto if it isn't dealt with. After Kamohiro's conversation with Yasube is over, the game introduces the main character.

You control a youth named Kagura, who is practicing the way of the sword. His master tells him that he has become quite skilled in the art of counter-attacking and that a strong defense is critical to defeat his opponents. Kagura's master's words are interrupted by a young man named Touta, who tells Kagura that a village elder named Tenkai is looking for him. You go into the house on the far top-right of the screen and speak to Tenkai and he tells you to travel to find Yasube.

Basically, the game deals with the dead and dark spirits and you are in charge of trying to bring order back to the land.

I've uploaded a game sample too.

阿含の星まつり（その1）

2019,2,11、京都市山科区北花山の炎の祭典
第46回阿含（あごん）の星まつりに行ってきました。

Sumiyoshi Taisha, Osaka 2017

I got wind of a festival happening at one of Japan's oldest shrines. I ventured out to see what was going on. It turned out to be a ritual involving a sacred horse - an opportunity to rid your evil spirits at the beginning of the year. Unfortunately, I missed the horse but hopefully there's a lot more interesting things to see. Hope you enjoy.

HOSHI NO MAI: Official 2016 Nisei Week Grand Parade Dance Instruction

Also see Soran Matsuri Bushi, the other Nisei Week Grand Parade dance here:

NONOTAK - ROPPONGI ART NIGHT TOKYO

Installation DAYDREAM V.2 by NONOTAK STUDIO ( Noemi Schipfer and Takami Nakamoto)
Roppongi Art Night @ Grand Hyatt Tokyo. April 2014
nonotak.com

第３８回　阿含の星まつり in 2011　～その３～

京都の冬の風物詩、阿含の星まつりが２月１１日に京都にて行われました。

Fire Rites Festival(Agon Shu's Hoshi Matsuri) was held on February 11th , 2011