The Izumis (Kei and his parents) are at the Summer Children’s Concert 2015 at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. They have used the “Ueno One-day Pass,” which came with the concert ticket, to spend a fun time at museums and the zoo. They are about to have a long-awaited lunch. The following is the afternoon of their day in Ueno.

The Mingei Theatre Company celebrated its 70th anniversary in April 2020. Three of its members—actors Fumie Kashiyama and Shigenori Chiba, and director Ikumi Tanno—discuss a variety of topics, including the enthusiasm for their upcoming performances, the process of creating drama works, and the unprecedented situation in which the COVID-19 pandemic has placed the world of stage play.

This first edition of the new column “Next Tokyo Discovery Squad!” features an interview with Ven. Masaomi Tomomitsu (vice priest of Jogyoji Temple), who is the organizer of the Buddhist and Shinto festival Kohgen held in May 2018 in Meguro. Kohgen is a modern and comprehensive event that transcends religions and sects and provides opportunities to experience a combination of various traditional cultures.

What happens when music is born and played, and then reaches its audience?

A conversation between two people working in different fields

The inaugural issue of this new series, “Examining the Artists,” focuses on Yajuro Takashima (1890-1975). Often called a “Solitary Painter” and “Painter of Candlelight,” his artistic life has been featured repeatedly on Sunday Art Museum, an NHK TV program. With his highly stoic and fastidious nature, Takashima has been gaining more and more attention recently.

We talked with Kentaro Taki and Kenji Yamada, who took part in the Tokyo Wonder Site Residency 2016-2017 “C/Sensor-ed Scape” (April 15-May 28), an art exhibition of works created during the TWS Residency Program. The exhibition was held at the Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo. We asked the two artists about their ways of surviving by making use of the artist-in-residence programs.

This is a column to introduce art events held in Tokyo. Would you like to bring art to your daily life, whether it is in physical reality or online?