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Episode 6 : The Essence of KAISEKI Cuisine
February. 23,2013
The theme of the 6th segment of this series is Kyoto cuisine. Being the potential candidate of the World Heritage, it is continuously evolving by adding modern arrangements to traditions handed down for over 1000 years.
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Episode 5 : Life as a TAYU - Diva beyond Geisha
May. 27,2012
This is the fifth in our popular series of programs taking a fresh, distinctive look at forbidden worlds of Kyoto that can usually only be glimpsed for fleeting moments. We have already visited the Gion and other entertainment districts, the home of a tea ceremony school and other usually unvisitable places but now we penetrate Shimabara itself at the very pinnacle of the Japanese entertainment pyramid, the most inaccessible place of them all.
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Episode 4 : Winter Comes to The Geisha
January. 22,2012
In the fourth part of this fresh, unusual series inside the world of Forbidden Kyoto, which outside eyes seldom see, an American scholar of Oriental Studies observes two rites of the Kyoto winter, Manekiage and the Hanamachi Souken.
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Episode 2 : Two Festivals, Two Worlds
November. 28,2010
In the second part of this fresh, unusual series inside the world of Forbidden Kyoto, which outside eyes seldom see, an American scholar of Oriental Studies delves into the Jidai Matsuri festival and Kurama fire festival held in Kyoto on October 22nd each year. They are held on the same day but are otherwise utterly different, the one embodying stasis and the other extraordinary dynamism.
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