Postby Kaori » Tue Aug 10, 2010 10:23 pm
Thanks for posting this. That was really well-done; I was impressed by the emotion that was put into the performance, especially the main chanter.
I would be curious to know whether the performers involved were Christians or not--though my guess would be probably not; Japan has such a small Christian population, and bunraku performers are such a small (and dying) portion of society that it seems really unlikely that the performers were believers. Nevertheless, they did a fantastic job; the acting was superb and right on the mark.
I have been a little bit sad that most Japanese worship music is just Christian songs from other countries (hymns, western praise music, or sometimes Korean praise music) translated into Japanese, and that there don't seem to be many Japanese songwriters making their own form of Christian worship music. So, it is great to see that someone has taken this Japanese art form and done a great job of presenting the gospel story with it. That is really awesome.
Let others believe in the God who brings men to trial and judges them. I shall cling to the God who resurrects the dead.
-St. Nikolai Velimirovich
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