Old-Style Japanese Juggling

[Mulboyne]

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From Tokyo Mango:

"In Tokyo, we saw an article in the Japan Times about a rare performance of a juggling style called daikagura that predates the Edo Period. Back in the day, it was the kind of thing high-ranking shoguns would get live performances of at home. Today, there are less than 100 people in the whole entire world who can do it, although we see traces of it in newer art forms like kabuki and manzai. Anyway, the Edo-Daikagura Maruichi Troupe was giving a rare performance at the Yagenbori Fudoin, a shrine so local and esoteric that our cab driver didn't even know where it was. So we decided to check it out...more...