{"id":58805,"date":"2015-12-12T06:26:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T10:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=58805"},"modified":"2015-11-23T04:27:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T08:27:25","slug":"a-night-of-kyogen-with-mansaku-nomura-and-mansaku-no-kai-kyogen-company-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=58805","title":{"rendered":"A Night of Kyogen with Mansaku Nomura and Mansaku-no-Kai Kyogen Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, December 12  6:30pm<br \/>\nJapan Society<br \/>\n333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/resources\/legacy\/event\/Website_large_kyogen.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[58805]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/resources\/legacy\/event\/Website_large_kyogen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Octogenarian Living National Treasure Mansaku Nomura, together with illustrious members of the Mansaku-no-Kai Kyogen Company, including Mansaku\u2019s son star of stage\/film\/TV Mansai Nomura and masterful performer Yukio Ishida, return to Japan Society to offer a special evening of kyogen, Japan\u2019s traditional comedic theater that satirizes and embraces human imperfection. Centering around Mansaku\u2019s virtuosic performance of the vigorous solo piece Nasu no Yoichi, based on a serious episode from The Tale of the Heike, the program also includes the dynamic Akutaro, starring Mansai, about a troublemaker&#8217;s unexpected journey to repentance and the popular play Bonsan, which follows a foolish thief with a penchant for bonsai trees. With English titles.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/a-night-of-kyogen-with-mansaku-no-kai\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, December 12 6:30pm Japan Society 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58806,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58805\/revisions\/58806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}