Grand Tea Gathering of the Flowered Night at KYOTO NIPPON FESTIVAL 2026

An art experience that goes into the story in collaboration with the world-famous dance company DAZZLE and Mika Ninagawa with EiM. The curtain of the "Immersive Theater" that transcends time and space opens on the stage of Kitano Tenmangu Shrine and Fugetsuden, where long history and prayer live. Kitano Tenmangu Shrine is the headquarters of Tenmangu Shrine nationwide, which enshrines Sugawara Michizane, who is known as the god of learning, and is a sacred place that has received people's prayers since the Heian period. In addition, this place became the stage of "Kitano Daichayu", which is known as the largest tea ceremony in history held by Hideyoshi Toyotomi in 1587, and in the early Edo period, there is also a legend that Izumo Aguni, the ancestor of Kabuki, performed a dance here. I am here. This space itself, where prayer and festival, faith and entertainment overlap, is an important stage equipment in this work. "Immersive Theater" is a theatrical form in which the audience does not sit in the audience and appreciate it, but enters the same space as the performer and experiences it as a character in the story. There are no fixed seats or stages, and the entire space becomes the stage. It was born in London in the 2000s and spread worldwide in the 2010s starting in New York. This work is an ambitious attempt by Mika Ninagawa, a film director who has created a new trend in the Japanese art scene, to challenge a new area of Immmersive Theater. The creative team EiM is in charge of stage art, and Hiroaki Miyata is in charge of concept making. I developed DAZZLE from the script stage with Mika Ninagawa. By performing it in a real space called Kitano Tenmangu Shrine, where history itself lives, rather than a set set up for theater, you will have an experience that can only be established here, which is different from traditional theaters and exhibitions. The performance will be conducted in a non-verbal format that does not use dialogue. The starting point of the story is "Kitano Daichayu", which is said to have closed in one day in historical facts. In this work, the story arises from the imagination that if the "second day of the illusion" existed. DAZZLE performs endlessly in the iconic space set by Mika Ninagawa and EiM. The audience shifts their position from "viewer" to "characters in the story" and is invited to an experience that transcends time and space with the historical space. Story Four hundred years ago, a legendary tea party held by Hideyoshi Toyotomi at Kitano Tenmangu Shrine. The unprecedented banquet, in which both the daimyo and the common people enjoyed tea without distinction, closed in just one night. Tonight's "second day of the phantom" that should not have existed in history will be resurreced as the "big tea party of the flower night". The visitors become guests invited to the special banquet and witness the silent story. What appears there is jealousy, arrogance, and regret - a shadow that hides in everyone's heart. The sign reminds me of a person whose name has been engraved in history. Flowers and light swaying, a fleeting and beautiful tea ceremony. When the shadows surround one seat, the visitors will breathe with the story, and the boundary between reality and fantasy will begin to quietly permeate. And when the hearts of the viewer overlap their conflict, the experience turns into their own story. After the end of the performance, in the afterglow, we put our hands together to the main hall - this story is until that quiet time.