{"id":114159,"date":"2018-09-28T17:07:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T08:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&p=114159&lang=en"},"modified":"2018-09-28T17:07:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T08:07:07","slug":"otojiro-kawakami-memorial-3","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/otojiro-kawakami-memorial-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Otojiro Kawakami Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hakata-born Otojiro Kawakami was known for penning the popular, Meiji-era satirical song \u201cOppekepe-bushi\u201d. Having toured the world twice with his own group as the first Japanese theater troupe to perform in the West, Kawakami was also the first person to likewise introduce Western plays like Shakespeare to the Japanese audience. A Buddhist memorial service in his honor is held every year on his death anniversary, Nov. 11, by a Buddhist monk at the Jotenji Temple.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Otojiro Kawakami here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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\u2022 11\/11 (Sun.)
\n\u2022 11:00~ (approx. one hour)
\n\u2022 Free viewing
\n\u2022 Jotenji Temple
\n\u2022 1-29-9 Hakata-ekimae, Hakata-ku<\/a>
\n\u2022 092-281-7761<\/a> (Hakata Machiya Folk Museum)
\n\u2022 http:\/\/hakatanomiryoku.com\/akihaku\/999.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hakata-born Otojiro Kawakami was known for penning the popular, Meiji-era satirical song \u201cOppekepe-bushi\u201d. Having toured the world twice with his own group as the first Japanese theater troupe to perform in the West, Kawakami was also the first person to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":104589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-114159","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-hakata","event-type-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/114159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}