Four masters percussionists are gathered for this concert of taiko (Japanese drum). WATANABE Kaoru (Kodo, Watanabe Taiko), KAMEDA Shoji (One Together), Art LEE (Ondekoza, Wadaiko Tokara) and Grete MOORTGAT (Feniks Taiko) mix taiko traditional and shinobue (flute) in the rhythms of the jazz and in the percussions of all the corners of the world, in a rich and vibrating sound pallet of energy. To produce the “good sound” with the taiko asks a requiring physical work, an anchoring and a stability of the pond which allows to reach the flexibility, the internal silence and the profound joy which gets this practice. He can be so considered as music, martial art, meditation or dance.
“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet”. This verse of Rudyard KIPLING is pulled by a poem which says that where the strong people meet, they make him on an equal footing and all the borders disappear then.

For the first time outside Japan will be collected the works of the collection of the famous house Matsuzakaya established in 1611. Through the most beautiful textile parts which will be presented, it will be a question of concerning an unpublished look the evolution of the fashion in Japan since the period of Edo (on 1603 - 1868) until current period. The exhibition will handle evolutions of the kimono and its accessories to evoke better the place of the women and the vision of their body in the Japanese society but also their réinterprétations in the Japanese and French fashion contemporary.

Today, Aikido is practised in approximately 130 countries. It was however difficult to introduce and to spread this martial art after the war (in 1951), in countries in the very different cultures. That is why, we organize an event in homage to 7 direct pupils of UESHIBA O Sensei, MOCHIZUKI Minoru, ABE Tadashi, NAKAZONO Mutsuharu, MURASHIGE Aritoshi, NORO Masamichi, TAMURA Nobuyoshi, André NOCQUET, “pioneers” of Aikido in France.

03:00 pm - 05:00 pm: ceremony of tribute, followed by a conference by TADA Hiroshi (Aikikai-Honbu Shihan, 9th dan) and KLOSSOWSKA OF ROLA Setsuko (Artist of the UNESCO for the Peace). Demonstration of Japanese Traditional Dance.

These events are free and opened to all (except the course reserved for the followers of Aikido), but the registration is COMPULSORY. Places are name specific and of a limited number. The registration will be firm after reception of a confirmation of part of the organizers.

The Jômon period extends between approximately 13 000 and 300 years before J. C. in the Japanese archipelago, but her continued during several centuries in Hokkaidô. The people of this time lived on hunting, on fishing, on picking, on agriculture. The potteries which they made testify of a particularly original creativity.

This small exhibition is organized on the occasion of the concert of drums Jômon and piano. It gathers some retorts of potteries Jômon of the North of Japan, of which that of a national Treasury.