TEDxTokyo - Hayashiya Imamaru 林家今丸 - 05/15/10

Give most people a pair of scissors, tell them to get creative, and you might get a string of paper dolls or a few snowflakes. Give Hayashiya Imamaru those same shears, however, and in a flurry of snips hell produce a koala, or a dancing girl, or perhaps a portable shrine borne by six bearers. He travels to France, Vietnam, Brazil, the U.S., Australia and elsewhere to wow people of all ages with kamikiri, spontaneously creating any design the audience requests, including lightning-quick portrayals in paper of audience members. Hayashiya performs frequently with other rakugoka from the Rakugo Artists Association as a way to share Japans raucous yose (vaudeville) theater with the rest of the world, often accompanied by shamisen music.

鋏を渡されて「何かクリエイティブなことをしてみて」と頼まれれば、大抵の人は人や雪の形を切り出すのではないでしょうか。ところが、林家今丸に鋏を渡すとどうでしょう。­すっと鋏を入れだすやいなや、、、コアラ、踊子、はては6人の担ぎ手に担がれたお神輿まで作ってしまうことでしょう。フランス、ベトナム、ブラジル、アメリカ、オーストラ­リアなどで海外公演を行い、一瞬にして観客の似顔絵シルエットを作ってしまうなど、その場のリクエストに応えてどんな形でも作ってしまう紙切りで老若男女をあっと言わせて­います。海外でも日本の寄席を体験してもらいたいと思い、落語芸術協会に所属する他の落語家と共に三味線をバックにしばしば公演を行っています。

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[amanesayuri]

incredible!