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    Rakugo is a Japanese comic storytelling art form performed solo by a rakugoka. It originated from Buddhist monks adapting stories in the 8th century and spread to military camps and courts by the 16th century. It gained popularity through prints in the 17th century and established public performances at yoses in the 18th-19th century. A rakugo performance involves traditional props like a cushion, hand towel, and fan and follows conventions like specific movement formulas passed down through generations.

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    Rakugo is a Japanese comic storytelling art form performed solo by a rakugoka. It originated from Buddhist monks adapting stories in the 8th century and spread to military camps and courts by the 16th century. It gained popularity through prints in the 17th century and established public performances at yoses in the 18th-19th century. A rakugo performance involves traditional props like a cushion, hand towel, and fan and follows conventions like specific movement formulas passed down through generations.

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    Rakugo is a Japanese comic storytelling art form performed solo by a rakugoka. It originated from Buddhist monks adapting stories in the 8th century and spread to military camps and courts by the 16th century. It gained popularity through prints in the 17th century and established public performances at yoses in the 18th-19th century. A rakugo performance involves traditional props like a cushion, hand towel, and fan and follows conventions like specific movement formulas passed down through generations.

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    RAKUGO

    The popular narrative art of Japan


    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    What is Rakugo?
    Description
    01 Where does it
    02 come from?
    Evolution
    How does one do
    it?
    Conventions
    03
    01
    What is Rakugo?
    A short description
    ● Japanese art form

    ● Comic storytelling
    (Sasaki and Morioka, p.417)

    ● Solo-performance
    (Brau, p.48)

    Rakugoka/Hanashika

    Fig.1: 光友社
    02
    Where does it come
    from?
    Evolution of the Arts
    The origins of Rakugo

    8th Century:

    Buddhism spreads over Japan


    -> Monks adapt stories

    Setsuwamono
    (Sasaki and Morioka, p.418)
    Fig. 2: Monk in modern Tokyo
    Development of Rakugo

    16th century:

    Storytellers at courts
    + in military

    After wars narrators for


    second class
    (Morioka and Sasaki, p.332)
    Fig. 3: 16th century battle
    Development of Rakugo

    17th Century:

    Increasing popularity in population,


    -> prints
    (Morioka and Sasaki, p.232)

    Fig.4: The Invention of Wood Block Printing


    Development of Rakugo

    18th-19th century:

    Establishment of yoses

    -> large public performances


    (Sasaki and Morioka, p.419)

    Fig.5: Yose in Osaka


    03
    How does one do it?
    Conventions of the
    performance
    Conventions
    Passed through generations

    Tenegui Sensu
    Koza, Cushion and Kimono

    A small hand towel High place, place to kneel A traditional fan


    down and clothing

    (Sweeney, p.44); Fig.6: Cushion Rakugo; Fig.7: Japanese Hand Towel; Fig.8: What Is Sensu?
    Other conventions

    Specific movements

    “Far-near high-low” - formula

    (Sweeney, p.44)
    Arigatō
    gozaimashita!

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