Board of Ceremonies
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The Board of Ceremonies is a department of the Imperial Household Agency of Japan. The board is the chief administration charged with ceremonial matters.
Music Department of the Board of Ceremonies
Shinhama Imperial Wild Duck Preserve
Gagaku
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Gagaku is a traditional Japanese performing art comprising court music, song, and dance. Historically centered on the imperial court, it has also been transmitted at Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines,
Board of Ceremonies
…responsible for such activities as the Imperial Family's State visits to foreign countries. The board's Music Department (楽部, gakubu) performs both gagaku (雅楽), i.e. ancient court music, and Western classical music. The hunting parties at the kamoba preserves invites guests to participate in traditional…
A gagaku performance at the Manyo Botanical Garden in Nara in 2019
Court musicians depicted in the Kasuga Gongen Genki E (1309)
The dance Kochō performed before the emperor, from J. M. W. Silver's Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs (1867)
Ninjō-mai, a dance associated with court kagura and the indigenous repertory