This afternoon, I ventured out to Yokohama to watch the first ever Brazilian Style Rakugo performance at the Yokohama Nigiwaiza Rakugo Theatre. I’ve only watched rakugo on TV so I thought it would be a good opportunity to see a live performance. A group of local musicians played and sang samba & choro songs between the rakugo performances, providing background music occasionally. There was some attempt to make a connection between rakugo and samba but I didn’t get it. I could understand the stories the rakugoshi was telling, one about a fundoshi and another about a ghost but I didn’t understand what most of the people were laughing at. Still got a lot to learn. Oh well. The music was good though.
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