Kabuki often depicts traditional Japanese dishes. Actor Kataoka Ainosuke introduces scenes with several examples, and teaches us about what foods were popular in the Edo period. In "Hokaibo," a disreputable begging priest takes time off from abducting a beautiful girl for a bowl of soba noodles from a roadside stall.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E97fRS6QCyU
Cast in order of appearance (vintage 2003)
Jennifer Coulter
John Baker and Buck Hathaway
Craig Klampe (2010)
Cindy Liu
Amber Bales
James Burns
Nigella Hillgarth
Barbara Ramsey
Bob Wylie
Bob Burhans
Alison Aquino
Michelle Olson
Joyce Fleming
Kelly Stine
Richard Harden
Debbie Melechinsky
Mark Akins
Mike Myers
Sharon Laabs
Graham Nicastro
James Green
David Krimmel
Becky
Kevin Bentz
Shelly Moak
Salomon Rojas
Lou Dellios
Miriam Polcino
Angela Kozakowski
Yogi
Shelley Lee
Ross Christie (and Kyle)
Ted Merano
Levana Waiche
Lydia Cobb
Mick Curzon
Mark Ball
Mary Rose
Ana Kozakowski
Sylvester Stewart and Robert Wilmot
Sly
Vincent Levesque
Sarah Wilson (with Hello Kitty)
Fernando Nosratpour
Leslee Matsushige and Darvin Boothe
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYf7MR2TuHs
Kabuki is full of music played both on and off stage. Actor Kataoka Ainosuke and musician Kawase Roshu guide us through the beautiful complexities of sankyoku.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8sTRgNypPM
A sacred anthem for 3-part mixed a cappella choir with text from Psalms.
Deliver me from death, O God, and my tongue shall sing your righteousness, O God of my salvation. Open my lips, O Lord, and my mouth shall proclaim your praise.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbNHaX6NHEM
A sacred anthem for 4-part a cappella mixed choir with text by St. Anselm. From Office of Readings for first Friday in Advent.
O Lord, teach me to seek,
and when I seek you,
show yourself to me,
for I cannot seek you
unless you teach me,
nor can I find you unless you
show yourself to me.
Let me seek you in desiring you,
and desire you in seeking you,
find you in loving you
and love you in finding you.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc0ocKdpDz8
A family tragedy when in a civil war, two brothers, both brilliant strategists, fight on opposing sides. Moritsuna worries about his younger brother, culminating in having to identify his brother's head.
Sasaki Moritsuna has captured Koshiro, the young son of his brother Takatsuna, but worries that love for his son will tempt Takatsuna to go against the warrior code and betray his lord.
Moritsuna asks his mother to force Koshiro to kill himself, so that he will not be a temptation and threat to his father.
When Koshiro sees what is supposed to be his father's head, he stabs himself. But the head is not his father, it is the head of a substitute and Koshiro's death is part of an intricate strategy to manipulate Moritsuna into declaring the head genuine.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDuUzKsthWc
A sacred anthem for 3-part mixed choir a cappella of a prayer by St. Symeon the New Theologian.
Come, true light.
Come, light eternal.
Come, hidden mystery.
Come, treasure without name.
Come, reality beyond all words.
Come, person beyond all understanding.
Come, rejoicing without end.
Come, light that knows no evening.
Come, unfailing expectation of the saved.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLFS-1AYWPo
Workers at a sawmill use the latest tools and their honed skills to prepare the building blocks of Edo life: long, narrow beams, bamboo stems and leftover wood stacked as high as buildings.
*"Tatekawa in Honjo" from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" (c.1830) by Katsushika Hokusai
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNaygYlcDmk
At dusk in summer, a woman is absorbed in reading a letter. This chic lady is actually an advertisement model for Mitsui Echigoya, one of the top kimono fabric stores in Edo.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAI3jBuJG40