Monday, November 7, 2022
The 45th Hokuryu Town Citizens' Cultural Festival was held over two days, on Wednesday, November 2nd and Thursday, November 3rd, at the Community Center Large Hall and Hokuryu Town Rural Environment Improvement Center.
- 1 45th Hokuryu Town Cultural Festival 2022
- 2 Exhibition and presentation of works
- 3 Entertainment Performance
- 3.1 Main MC: Naoki Kishi (Hokuryu Town Board of Education)
- 3.2 Hokuryu Town Cultural Federation Award: Hiroko Yoshio
- 3.3 Opening Ceremony
- 3.4 Sword Poetry Dance: Oushin-ryu Sword Poetry Dance Association
- 3.5 Chorus: Hokuryu Town Sunflower Chorus
- 3.6 Taishogoto: Japanese Taishogoto Club
- 3.7 Taishogoto: Midorigoto Association
- 3.8 Shigin: (Inc.) Japan Shigin Academy Gakufu-kai Fukagawa Branch Hekisui-do Hall
- 3.9 Karaoke: Hekisui Karaoke Club
- 3.10 Karaoke: Himawari University Club Activities
- 3.11 Hokuryu Taiko
- 3.12 Closing Ceremony
- 4 Other photos
- 5 YouTube videos
- 6 Photos from the Town Cultural Festival "Exhibition and Presentation" and "Performance Presentation"
- 7 Related articles
45th Hokuryu Town Cultural Festival 2022
This year, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, various bassa events were canceled, and the exhibition location was changed to the large hall of the community center.
- Organizer:Hokuryu Town Cultural Festival Executive Committee
- Co-organized by:Hokuryu Town Cultural Association, Hokuryu Town Education Promotion Association, Hokuryu Town Board of Education
Exhibition and presentation of works
Wonderful works by each group were exhibited in the large hall on the second floor of the community center (exhibition for two days on November 2nd and 3rd).
Works on display include those from clubs (calligraphy, ink painting, pressed flowers, handicrafts, painting, photography, haiku, patchwork, Cosmos Club, Bonsai, works by elementary and junior high school students, etc.), as well as individual works such as calligraphy (by participants in Seto Ryumon's community center course) and washi dolls (by Kawamoto Fumiko).
Agricultural products (sasa dango from Fumi-no-kai, daifuku and red rice from the Chamber of Commerce Women's Division, and bread from Akarui Noho) will be sold in the auditorium on the first floor of the community center.
Entertainment Performance
At the Hokuryu Town Rural Environment Improvement Center Gymnasium, an exciting entertainment performance was held from 10:00 to around 12:30 on Thursday the 3rd.
Main MC: Naoki Kishi (Hokuryu Town Board of Education)
Hokuryu Town Cultural Federation Award: Hiroko Yoshio
Hiroko Yoshio, winner of the 42nd Samejima Award from the Hokkaido Haiku Association, was presented with the Hokuryu Town Cultural Federation Award.
Introducing Hiroko Yoshio
After Hiroko Yoshio married Masakazu Yoshio, while she was engaged in farming, a teacher at her children's elementary school told her, "Children grow up by watching their parents. Whatever you can, why don't you try to show your willingness to learn in your own way as a mother?" and the teacher then taught her haiku.
He then joined the Hokkaido Haiku Society. In 2002, he published his first collection of haiku, "Mother's Voice," in order to express his gratitude to his mother. In 2021, he published his second collection, "Flower Rafts," which won the 42nd Samejima Award from the Hokkaido Haiku Society.
"The Samejima Award is a prestigious award established to honor the achievements of Samejima Kouko, the first president of the Hokkaido Haiku Association, and this time the award will be presented in accordance with the regulations of the Cultural Federation Awards," said Kishi, the moderator.
Opening Ceremony
Greetings from Executive Committee Chairman Yoshiharu Yamashita
"We would like to express our sincere gratitude for your continued understanding and cooperation in our cultural activities.
Time flies, and with only two months left in the year, the snowy season is upon us. Autumn is a time of bountiful harvest, and we are holding our first cultural festival in three years. We look forward to sharing this joy with you all.
However, over the past two years, each club has been forced to cancel or hold their own events. However, recently, with the hope of vaccinations, events have been resuming in various places, and in preparation for our cultural festival, we conducted a survey of each organization and club, and based on the results, we have decided to go ahead with the festival.
As we have all been informed, in order to prevent the spread of the virus, some events have been cancelled or scaled down, and we ask for your understanding.
The cultural festival is also an opportunity for students to present the works they have created and practiced for this day. We hope that together with everyone, we will have a fun day where we can become familiar with the culture of making, listening, seeing, and eating.
We would also like to express our gratitude for the efforts you made over several days to prepare the venue, including disinfecting it, to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Thank you very much.
"The weather is getting colder and colder from now on. I hope that everyone will take precautions against coronavirus and influenza and stay healthy every day," said Executive Committee Chairman Yamashita in his opening remarks.
Sword Poetry Dance: Oushin-ryu Sword Poetry Dance Association
- Representative:Hideko Kawada
- Program:"Tango Namida Station," "Kuroda Bushi," "Aoba no Fue," and "Manajiri"
Kazuko Nishiyama and Hideko Kawada
Tsutomu Sakamoto
Isao Hoshiba
Kazuko Nishiyama and Hideko Kawada
Chorus: Hokuryu Town Sunflower Chorus
- Representative:Hide Doi
- Conductor:Tetsujo Yamamoto
- Accompaniment:Tomoyo Kano
- Program:"To Earth," "Colors of the Window," and "Like the River Flows"
Taishogoto: Japanese Taishogoto Club
- Representative:Junko Yoshida
- Instructor:Chikako Kobayashi
- Program:"Small World," "Subaru," and "The Person I Fell in Love With"
Taishogoto: Midorigoto Association
- Representative:Kumiko Asano
- Instructor:Chikako Kobayashi
- Program:"Applause," "Cotton Handkerchief," and "Kiyoshi's Zundoko Bushi"
Shigin: (Inc.) Japan Shigin Academy Gakufu-kai Fukagawa Branch Hekisui-do Hall
- Representative:Isao Hoshiba
- Program:"Reciting Together: Honnoji Temple" and "Reciting Alone: Shizuka Gozen"
Isao Hoshiba, Kazuo Kimura, and Ryoji Kikura
Yukitake Kanayama
Karaoke: Hekisui Karaoke Club
- Representative:Kumiko Asano
- Program:"Flowers of Tsugaru," "Your Osaka," and "That Guy"
Fumiko Kawashima
Hiroyo Nakamura
Kazuo Kimura
Karaoke: Himawari University Club Activities
- Program:"Ohan"
Ryoji Kikura
Hokuryu Taiko
- Representative:Hiroyo Nakamura
- Program:"Ryusho", "Yamabiko", "Senrai no Utage"
Closing Ceremony
Greetings from Vice Executive Committee Chairman Hiroyo Nakamura
"Thank you all for your hard work. How did you enjoy the cultural festival, which was your first in three years? I'm sure you've all been through a lot in the past three years.
Regarding today's entertainment stage, some of you may have thought that there were not many works.
During this COVID-19 pandemic, some groups have been disbanded. This is very unfortunate, but I think it is inevitable. Regarding the artworks, there is a lack of successors, and the number of works is small, and I have heard that even elementary and junior high schools are not able to create many.
Despite the circumstances, we did everything we could. Thank you very much to the members of the Board of Education who cooperated with us today and to everyone who attended.
After this, we would normally have a bread throwing event, but due to the coronavirus, this event has been cancelled this time.
There are still some items left for sale in the auditorium, so if you have time, we would be delighted if you could come and visit. The exhibit will be on display until around 3:30pm, so we hope you will come and see the results of this past year.
Now, young mothers are working hard on various activities, such as patchwork and rice straw. Age doesn't matter, so as long as you stay healthy, keep doing what you do with the energy you'll have, and I hope that you'll come to the school festival again in a year, so that we can hold it again.
Although the Soba Shokuraku Club Kitaryu is not participating in the cultural festival this year, they are holding a "Soba Enjoyment Party" at the Soba Dojo today.
I heard that if you bring a program for the town cultural festival, you will receive a free kakiage (tempura) as a gift, so please be sure to bring the program and enjoy the delicious hand-made soba noodles from Soba Shoraku Club Kitaryu.
Thanks to all of you who support the cultural festival in this way, both at the venue and outside, we hope that we will be able to hold the festival again next year.
"Thank you very much for today," said Vice Executive Chairman Nakamura in his closing remarks.
With boundless love, gratitude, and prayers, we offer the Hokuryu Town Citizens' Cultural Festival, a wonderful harmony where the citizens of Hokuryu come together and the fruits of their great efforts over the past year resonate together in a circle of great emotion and joy.
Other photos
YouTube videos
Exhibition and presentation of works
Entertainment Performance
Photos from the Town Cultural Festival "Exhibition and Presentation" and "Performance Presentation"
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