Please join us for an evening of Japanese imperial court music and dance performed by the Tennōji Gakuso Garyōkai Ensemble to celebrate the DSR’s 50th anniversary. This event will feature traditional Gagaku music and Bugaku dance, art forms that have been performed for over 1000 years in Japanese Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines, and in the Japanese Imperial Court.
The Tennōji Gakuso Garyōkai Ensemble is based at Shitennōji Buddhist Temple in Osaka. They are one of the three major Gagaku troupes to have carried the tradition of Japanese court music since the Heian period, and are currently directed by Maestro Ono Shinryu, who began training at Shitennōji Buddhist Temple as a child and became a member of the Tennoji Gakuso Garyokai in 1993 before assuming the role of director. Maestro Ono received his doctorate in literature from Kyoto University and is currently an associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities at Soai University.
This event is co-sponsored by the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies, the Department for the Study of Religion, and the Japan’s Agency of Cultural Affairs.
The concert is free and open to the public. Please register for tickets through the Alumni Office. For details on other events planned for the anniversary year, please visit the DSR’s Anniversary page.
