Traditions of Osaka
18 traditions tied to Osaka.
🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan and 1 moreBonsai盆栽
A Japanese craft of keeping small trees in shallow pots, shaped for contemplationCraft
🇯🇵 Tokyo, JapanRakugo落語
Japanese solo comic storytelling told from a cushion using a fan and a clothPerformance
🇯🇵 Kyoto, JapanTorii鳥居
A traditional Japanese gate marking the entrance to a Shinto shrine and separating the sacred from the mundane.Spiritual
🇯🇵 Kyoto, JapanKyōgen狂言
A traditional Japanese comic theatre of short farces, spoken dialogue and satirePerformance
🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan and 5 moreTaiko太鼓 (taiko)
Japanese drums, and the ensemble style of playing themPerformance
🇯🇵 Kyoto, JapanNoh能 (Nō)
Japanese masked dance-drama, staged since the 14th century in family schoolsPerformance
🇯🇵 Osaka, Japan and 1 moreBunraku文楽
Osaka's puppet theatre, with chanters, shamisen players and puppeteers in plain sightPerformance
🇯🇵 Kyoto, JapanJiuta地歌
A shamisen song style born in Kamigata and long kept by blind musician guildsPerformance
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Bonsai: Ragesoss, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rakugo: Yuya Tamai, CC BY 2.0, source
- Torii: JordyMeow, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kyōgen: Corpse Reviver, CC BY 3.0, source
- Taiko: Ohno.A, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Noh: Yoshiyuki Ito, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bunraku: 氏子, CC0, source
- Jiuta: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, CC BY 2.0, source