{"id":20830,"date":"2017-09-08T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T02:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=20830"},"modified":"2017-09-08T16:36:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T08:36:32","slug":"enjoy-japanese-sit-down-comedy-in-english-with-rakugo-this-october-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/09\/08\/enjoy-japanese-sit-down-comedy-in-english-with-rakugo-this-october-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy Japanese Sit-down Comedy in English with RAKUGO this October 7!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Time to laugh out loud again with Rakugo!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Organized by All Nippon Airways (ANA) and in cooperation with The Japan Foundation, Manila (JFM) and Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO),we bring back <strong><em>Rakugo<\/em><\/strong> in English, a Japanese Sit-down Comedy with special Japanese guest artists to enthrall Philippine audiences on October 7, 2017, Saturday, 3:00 pm at Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza, Makati City.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20832 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/09\/Rakugo-flyer_front.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Rakugo<\/em> is a Japanese comic storytelling art that has been used as entertainment for over 400 years and is still widely popular today,staged at \u201c<em>yose<\/em>\u201d, which are specialized theatres for <em>Rakugo<\/em>. The artist speaks to the imagination, and single-handedly creates the hilarious side of tradition of Japan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Enjoy <em>Rakugo<\/em> with Kaishi Katsura, the world\u2019s top performer of English <em>Rakugo<\/em> and former Japan cultural envoy, along with Asakichi Katsura and Fukuryu Katsura. Meanwhile, as a colorful counterpoint to all-talk comedy, Kouki Houraiya\u00a0will amaze audiences with <em>daikagura<\/em> traditional clowning, a vintage street art with elements of acrobatics, juggling, magic, dance, and comedy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20831 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/09\/Rakugo-flyer_back.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/09\/Rakugo-flyer_back.jpg 724w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/09\/Rakugo-flyer_back-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Get a chance to win free tickets to this one-of-a-kind Japanese comedy show: Register now at <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ana.co.jp\/phyose1710\"><strong>http:\/\/ana.co.jp\/phyose1710<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Registration is <strong>open until September 17, 2017<\/strong>.\u00a0 Ticket winners will win on a <strong>lottery basis<\/strong>,with maximum of two (2) tickets per winner and will be notified through e-mail on or before September 23, 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The show is recommended for ages 13 years old and up. Children under 7 are not permitted in the theater. For more information, please visit the Japan Foundation, Manila website:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jfmo.org.ph\">http:\/\/www.jfmo.org.ph<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/jfmanila\">http:\/\/facebook.com\/jfmanila<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/02\/19\/japanese-rakugo-artists-perform-in-manila-for-ana-yose-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\">Japanese Rakugo artists perform in Manila for &#8216;ANA YOSE 2017&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to laugh out loud again with Rakugo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,94],"tags":[3502,3859,502,110,2523],"class_list":["post-20830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-press-release","tag-ana","tag-ana-yose","tag-comedy","tag-japanese","tag-rakugo"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/09\/Rakugo-flyer_front-e1504859784158.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20835,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20830\/revisions\/20835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}