{"id":140495,"date":"2021-05-11T11:35:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T02:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=140495&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-05-11T11:36:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T02:36:39","slug":"rakugo-comedian-to-perform-from-back-of-truck","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/rakugo-comedian-to-perform-from-back-of-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakugo Comedian To Perform From Back of Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Kitakyushu-based <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rakugo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> story-teller, Tachibanaya Bunta, debuted his &#8216;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rakugo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> car&#8217; on May 5. His first on-truck performance took place at Takami Shirine in Yahatahigashi Ward, with a story told in Kyushu dialect to some twenty fans. The Fukuoka-native<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> rakugo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> artist wants to provide entertainment to disaster-hit regions and other unique venues. His crowdfunding project has reached only 21% towards it goal, but runs until the end of May: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/camp-fire.jp\/projects\/view\/394566\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/camp-fire.jp\/projects\/view\/394566<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/local\/fukuoka\/news\/20210506-OYTNT50061\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yomiuri<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.jp\/shiritaka\/detail.php?mid=4&amp;cdid=22283\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KBC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-140496\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rakugo-car.jpg?resize=1024%2C859&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rakugo-car.jpg?resize=1024%2C859&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rakugo-car.jpg?resize=300%2C252&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rakugo-car.jpg?resize=768%2C644&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rakugo-car.jpg?w=1202&amp;ssl=1 1202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by official<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/COmSJhzr7N1\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Instagram<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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His first on-truck performance took place at Takami Shirine in Yahatahigashi Ward, with a story told in Kyushu dialect to some twenty fans. The Fukuoka-native rakugo artist wants to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":140496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-140495","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kitakyushu","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/140495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}