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This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Kusakabe Folk Crafts Museum.
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To commemorate this milestone, we are honored to present the special performance "Seeking the Field", featuring Min Tanaka, Rin Ishihara, Hirokazu Taniguchi, and Marihiko Hara, over three days from October 16-18, 2026.
Created exclusively for the Kusakabe Folk Crafts Museum, this special performance brings together internationally acclaimed dancer Min Tanaka, renowned for his singular artistic expression-often described as "the unnameable dance"-with distinguished fellow performers and members of the creative team active both in Japan and abroad.
How will Tanaka respond to the history and spirit of Takayama, and to the memories and traces of everyday life accumulated within the Kusakabe House, a nationally designated Important Cultural Property?
How will he give physical expression to what he perceives?
And how might it awaken the primordial memories that lie quietly within each person who witnesses it?
This will be a truly one-of-a-kind performance-an experience that can exist only in this place, at this particular moment.
For those with an interest in dance-especially Min Tanaka's singular physical expression-as well as Japanese culture, architecture, and the arts, we warmly invite you to visit Takayama and experience this extraordinary performance.
We would be deeply honored to welcome you to the Kusakabe Folk Crafts Museum and to share this special moment with you.
Kusakabe Folk Crafts Museum, Takayama, Japan
October 16-18, 2026
Tickets are now available.
https://www.ticketsinjapan.com/en/events/culture_seeking-the-field/
In Takayama, the Doll Festival is celebrated on April 3rd -- a month behind other regions.
Many of the Hina dolls conserved by the Kusakabes were brought in for generations as trousseaux of those who married into the heads of family, and some of the boxes for the dolls have inscriptions of the names of the historical brides. Enjoy fully the magnificent collection of Hina dolls, handed down generations.
Venue：Hie Jinja Shrine, Takayama City
A procession of people pulls floats called “Moving Yomei-mon Gates.”
Torige-uchi (Kankako), the lion dance, and shrine parishioners in kamishimo outfits with flat kasa hats join the procession of mikoshi (portable shrines). This has been designated an intangible folk cultural property by the national and prefectural governments.
Venue：Dry riverbed area of the Miyagawa River, Takayama City
Approximately 2,000 fireworks dynamically decorate the night sky of Takayama.
Venue：Sakurayama Hachimangu Shrine, Takayama City
One of Japan’s three most beautiful festivals, with a procession of 11 floats passing throughout the city. This has been designated an intangible folk cultural property by the national and prefectural governments.
