Year of the Goat Festival!

Upcoming Festival! The details are below!

Year of the Goat

New Year's Festival at Shinmachi

February 15 - 21st

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Sunday, February 15th

    Festival Teahouse Opening

        Time: 6pm slt

        Event: Fun and Games at the Festival Teahouse

        Location: Shinmachi Teahouse

Monday, February 16th

    Onsen Latern Games

        Time: 5pm slt

        Event: Informal entertainment and games at the Keisei Onsen

        Host: Yuugana Fuji

        Location: Keisei Onsen

Tuesday, February 17th

    Performance

        Time: 5pm slt

        Title: "The Nian"

        Host: The Shinmachi School

        Location: Shinmachi Teahouse

    Festival Teahouse Opening

        Time: Directly following the performance above

        Event: Fun and Games at the Festival Teahouse

Wednesday, February 18th

    Performance

        Time: TBD

        Host: Lihai Lily Salon

        Location: Lihai Lily Salon

    Festival Teahouse Opening

        Time: Directly following the performance above

        Event: Fun and Games at the Festival Teahouse

Thursday, February 19th

    Performance

        Time: 4pm slt

        Title: "The New Year's Festival"

        Host: EAE featuring Tsukinoya

        Location: SengokuTeahouse

       

Friday, February 20th

    Kabuki Performance

        Time: 5pm slt

        Title: "Most Precious"

        Host: Izumo Kabuki House

        Location: Sengoku Teahouse

       

Saturday, February 21st

    Closing Performance

        Time: 5pm slt

        Title: "Fireworks"

        Host: The Shinmachi District

        Location: Shinmachi Teahouse

    Finale Fireworks

        Time: Directly following the performance above

        Event: Fireworks to close out the festival

        

LY Photo Composition

The Little Yoshiwara photo contest sounded like so much fun that I decided to participate, and encouraged several of my friends and students to submit images as well. I had no idea that I'd win! I am so excited that I wanted to share the submission along with LY's announcement of the 3 winners, below. You can also see the images used for the composition on display at the Faversham Museum. Enjoy! ^_^

P.S. - Does anyone have images of the other two winners? I'd love to post them!

Photo contest Winners 
Sunday,08 Feb 2015 22:40:36 GMT

$L 5,000: First Prize: Heart Shadow by Amnesia Emodemon

$L 3000: Second Prize:  Mystery of the Forrest by FlippyHippie

$L 1000: Third Prize: Yoshiwara Composition by Aisya Destiny

Awesome Honorable Mentions: Kadaj Yoshikawa, Thom Bakerly, Talluhlah Mills, Alyssa978, Shurayukihime, ZenMondo Wormser, Xiara Scribe, Ann Pegasi, Ann Danick, nausicaa Dinzeo, Sorasu Romano, Pimiko,  and Aelia Ceriano

Thank you all for participating you made this great!
arigatou

Senior Maiko Kokoro

"Yoshiwara Composition"

The Peony Lantern

Last week, the ladies of Yuugana Fuji presented the haunting tale of The Peony Lantern in our teahouse at Keisei. Please enjoy these few images from the show, and we look forward to performing and entertaining you in the future!

- Aisya

From right to left, Kaguyama-Tayuu, Abigail-chan and myself,
as we performed The Peony Lantern on last Thursday. We decided
to use the koto/shinobue duet for it's haunting music, which
was perfect for this ghostly tale. 

A similar shot to the one above, but with a much closer view
of the detail on Kaguyama-Tayuu's dance and kimono. 

On Saturday morning we performed the story again, for those
who were unable to attend during the week. Kaguyama-Tayuu
debuted her latest kimono - she truly is the trendsetter of our house.