“Shomyo Horizon, PART 1” a solo concert: director, composer (traditional Shomyo included); Shomeido Hall (Tokyo)
1994
"Shomyo Horizon, PART 2" a solo concert: director, composer (traditional Shomyo included); Silk Lob (Tokyo)
"Music From Japan 1994:" with Mamoru Fujieda; Asia Society (New York)
"Sakurai Makiko Buddhist Chant", a solo concert, director, composer, (traditional Shomyo included); Lotus Music and dance (New York)
1995
"Sakurai Makiko Solo in New York:" director, composer (traditional Shomyo included); Roulette (New York)
1996
“Meso-America of Breath ~ SPIRIT of MESOAMERICA + SHOMYO,” a solo concert, director, composer (traditional Shomyo included); Sponsor: Art and Culture Promotion Fund; Theater X (Tokyo)
"Heaven’s Music-Innumerable Spices" Traditional Shomyo Performance: performer; Xebec Hall (Kobe)
"Listening to Makiko Sakurai" a solo concert: director, composer, (traditional Shomyo included); Gallery Tosei (Tokyo)
1998
"Nursery Songs (Wazauta)" with Yutaka Takahashi; Violon (Tokyo)
"Nursery Songs (Wazauta)" with Yutaka Takahasi; Lady Jane (Tokyo)
Founded Gio-Ginyo Gagaku Association: Artistic Director
"Nursery Songs (Wazauta) for Sakurai Makiko:" performer; Sponsor: Asahi Beer; Saitama Arts Theater Small Hall (Saitama)
"Shirabyoshi-Shomyo-Imayo:" performer, Producer: Gion-Ginyo Gagaku Association; Metal Art Museum (Chiba, Japan)
“Nursery Songs (Wazauta) for Sakurai Makiko:” performer; baobab (Tokyo)
"Nursery Songs (Wazauta)" with Yutaka Takahashi; performer; Mandala 2 (Tokyo)
"Music Space Odyssey-Indian classical vocal music with Shomyo:" performer; Enmeiji-Temple (Saitama, Japan)
"Shomyo Horizon '99," a solo concert; director, composer (traditional Shomyo included); Ikedasha (Tokyo)
2000
"Water Shirabyoshi in Heian Period:" performer; Producer: Gio-Ginyo Gagaku Association; Coa Shakkyo (Tokyo)
"Makiko Sakurai Shomyo: Buddhist chant of the Heian period:" performer; Sponsor: Outpost; Outpost Performance Space (Albuquerque, USA)
"Recycle Fashion Show," performance with instruments created from recycled materials: Creator and Director; Sponsor Kawaguchi City; Kawaguchi Lilia (Saitama)
"Footpath of the Culture" composed by TASKE: performer with Fumie Hihara; Himeji Mushroom (Hiemji), Kyoto Club East, (Kyoto), Osaka Namba Bears (Osaka)
"Katariumu’s Room" composed by TASKE: performer; Watarium (Tokyo)
"Shomyo and Koto:" composer, performer with Fumie Hihara; Sponsor: LIBERT; Gallery Nude (Maebashi)
"Brains are Afro, Vol. Four" traditional Shirabyoshi: co producer, performer with Hihara Fumie; Mandala 2 (Tokyo)
" Sakurai Makiko, Yutaka Takahashi, Live in Concert:" performer; Sponsor: Akirama Noriko Architecture Atelier Kayabacho (Toyko)
"Sancho Festival" performer; Sponsor: Jeounju Festival Promotion Committee; Japan-Korea Foundation (Jeonju City, Korea)
"International Studies-Voice of Words" Chiba City’s 9th ‘Day to Enjoy Learning:’ performer; co-sponsored by Kanda University and Chiba City Life Learning Center (Chiba)
“ART meets BUTOH & SOUND:" composer, performer with Satoko Takahara; part of Project "ASIAN STYLE; Sponsor: Yoei Yamamoto; Peppers Gallery (Tokyo)
"Evening of Shomyo and Guitar:" performer with Yutaka Takahashi; part of ‘Asian Culture Series’; Sponsor: Ranbansari; Rainbansari Studio (Tokyo)
2002
“Festival for Shotoku Prince’s Anniversary of Birth" traditional Shomyo performance: performer; Yakuoji Temple (Kumamoto )
"Sakata Akira + mii:" composer; Ueda Art Museum (Nagano)
"Ten times changes of Vishnu in Flower Festival:" composer, performer with Yoshimi Masaki, Kyoko Nobi and Satoko Takahra; Enmeiji Temple (Saitama)
"Lecture and Performance Series,” ‘Shaman, Nun, Shirabyoshi and Female Singers:’ director, producer, performer
"Buddhism and Ancient Nun" Lecture by Kazuhiko Yoshida: performer
"Sound Space in Kyoto From the Female Point of view in Heian Period Literature" Lecture by Shin Nakagawa: composer, performer with Nakagawa Hiroshi, Shin Nakagawa and Plateau Satoko
"Female Song and Dance at Ancient time in Japan” Symposium with Junichi Komuma, ”Pirate’s Princess” composer, director, writer, performer with Carl Stone and Motoko Tsujii
"Buddhism Training System at Mount Hiei and Women Forbidden" Lecture by Genshin Nakayama, Traditional Shomyo Performance: performer
"Female Shamans at Miyakojima and Okinawa Island” Lecturer, composer and performer with Satoko Takahara, Hitomi Nakamura, Mami Echigo
"Shirabyoshi in Heian Period" Lecture by Asako Ueki: performer, composer with Shoko Kumagaya
"Dance and Song of Inada Princess:” Composer, performer; Sponsor Kawaguchi Juku; Kawaguchi shrine (Saitama)
"Shirikodama ive" performer with Yutaka Takahashi; Mandara 2 (Tokyo)
"Discommunications to People and Culture”: lecturer performer; Sponsor of Cultural Exchange Society in Minato Ward; (Tokyo)
2003
"Weeping Cherry at Rikugien:" performer; Sponsor: Tokyo Metropolitan Park Foundation; Rikugien (Tokyo)
Opening of the "Mandala" exhibition: performer with Kyoko Nobi; Sponsor: National Folk Museum; National Museum of Ethnology (Osaka)
A "Gita Govind at Flower Festival /Buddhist Memorial Service with New Gagaku Dance:" performer; Sponsor: Enmeiji-Temple; Enmeiji Temple (Saitama)
"Diva In Night With a Half Moon:” performer with Yutaka Takahashi; Sponsor: Ranbansari; Ranbansari Studio (Tokyo)
"Sakata Akirano Depression Explosion and his Companions, Part 2:" composer, performer with Akira Sakata, Bakabon Suzuki; Producer: Akira Sakakata; Chie Matsumoto; Kid Ai Rack Hall (Tokyo)
"Mho Miwayaa Morino Koe in Tazae Mochizuki Ⅱ" Sponsor: Tazae Mochizuki Composer and Performer with Saemon Takarayama, Yoko Fukuhara, Tazae Mochizuki; National Theater (Tokyo)
"No Religion Requiem:" performer with Noboru Yasuda and Shonosuke Okura; Sponsor: Nobzomu Hayasji Office; Jiyu Gakuen Asuka Auditorium (Tokyo)
2004
"The Great Mercy Flower, Sixteen Meditations for a Peaceful Death:" producer, director, composer, performer with Akira Sakata, Bakabon Suzuki and Kenji Sakasegawa; Waon (Tokyo)
"Seeing Off the Composer Satoshi Tanaka:" co-producer, co-director, performer; Violon (Tokyo)
“Exhibition “Scenic Eye” program; "East to West Ceremony of Welcome to Passed People ~ Homage of “Sleeping Beauty” by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa: writer, composer, director, performer; Sponsor: Tokushima Museum of Modern Art; Tokushima Museum of Modern Art (Tokushima)
“Story of Dragon Girl” at Flower Festival /Buddhist Memorial Service with New Gagaku Dance: director, composer and performer; Enmeiji Temple (Saitama)
Opening of the "Mandala" exhibition: performer; Sponsor: Senri-Chuo Foundation, Nagoya City Museum and the National Museum of Ethnography; Nagoya City Museum (Nagoya)
"Kanemak ~ Dance, Shomyo and Daihannya Sutra” at Contemporary Natiyamu Company Founding 8 Anniversary Concert: composer, director, performer with Kyoko Nobi Yuktoshi Morishige, Sponsor: Contemporary Natiyamu Company Satoko Takahara (Tokyo)
"Avant-garde Music in Origin Myths Series” ‘Dynasty culture’ Imayo by Shirabyoshi:" performer; Sponsor: Bokuryu-tei; Boku-ryu-tei (Saitama)
2005
"Roots of the Melody:" performer with Kojun Hirooka, Fukutaro Tamagawa, Shoichi Ozaw; Sponsor / Producer: Amu Arts; Hokutopia Azalea Hall (Tokyo)
"Tsukizusami" Producer Junichi Usui; Composer and Shirabyoshi Perfomer with Keiji Haino, Nobuhiko Tsurumaki, Tokuhisa William Kotaro;Grapefruit Moon (Tokyo)
"To know a Voice and To Utter a Voice, the Voice-workshop Series of Japanese Voice 1, Middle Ages:" lecturer, workshop leader, performer with Jinya Imai Sponsor: Dance and Media Japan; Izuruha (Tokyo)
"Voices from the Land:" co-producer with Ayako Saegusa, Kazuko Yokota, Hiroshi Takahashi, Aiti Murati Toruhari; Mandala 2 (Tokyo )
"Dream of Vajradhatu Mandara” at Flower Festival/Buddhist Memorial Service with New Gagaku Dance:" director, composer performer Sponsor: Enmeiji Temple; Enmeiji Temple (Saitama)
2006
"Samurai’s Meal and Shirabyoshi:" performer; Sponsor Hachinoki; Hachinoki (Kamakura)
"New Work’s Noh-Bamboo Princess:" writer, director, producer, performer; Sponsor Kawaguchi City of Board of Education; Tanaka Housing (Saitama)
"End of the Year, MIZU-NAGASHI!" performer; Producer / Sponsor Megalo Theater; Gallery LE DECO (Tokyo)
2007
"Commemorative events surrounding the Sareubatore-Purebirenti and Mrs. Mayumi:" performer: Sponsor: UNAC Tokyo; Art Unevenness Park (Nagano)
"KOSHIKI as Ancient Japanese Hip-hop Lecture/Demonstration 2:“ producer, lecture, performer; UP LINK (Tokyo)
Founded Nenbutsu Chant Group Artistic Director
"Charity Concert for Noto Earthquake Disaster Area - water goddess;" writer, producer, director, performer; Kawaguchi Bunka Kindergarten (Saitama)
”Trans Culture of Phase-The Spirit of Gregory Bateson:" composer, performer; Sponsor: Study Group of Gregory Beteson; Keio University Art Center (Tokyo)
"Spirit of Lily “A man and A woman of love and passion-Eurythmy and Shirabyoshi and Beeswax modeling collaboration” co-director, co-producer with Yuki Matsunaga and Doris; Tamagawa Cultural Center Hall (Tokyo)
"Voice in Ekoda echo NIGHT 2007 # 06 - “Bule Nun:” writer, director, performer with Nenbustu chant group, producer; Ekoda Flying Tea Pot (Tokyo)
"Tiger Rain - The Story of Princess:” writer, director, performer with Yuji Tsynemi Yuku; LADY JANE (Tokyo)
"Tanabata / Milky Way Concert:" composer, performer with Kazuo Imai; Sponsor: UPLINK FACTORY; UPLINK FACTORY (Tokyo)
"Pundarika Live val.11- Bamboo Princess:" writer, director, performer, producer; Sponsor: NPO Ayusu Buddhist cooperation network; Kyooji Temple (Toyko)
"Voice in Ekoda echo NIGHT2009 # 19"; Producer TASKE, Performer with Junzo Tateiwa; Ekoda Flying Teapot(Tokyo)
“Vocalists of cross-border "; Performer with Ayako Saegusa, Tokuhisa William, YutakaTakahashi, Junzo Tateiwa, Miki Akabane; Sendagi Petticoat Rain(Tokyo)
“9.11 theater project" Shirabyoshi Performer with Keiko Obata, Tomomi Fujiki; Hillside plaza (Yokohama)
"Sending to Heaven": Composer and Performer with Kaoru Hori and Narumi Takizawa; Torinokosan Shrine (Ibaraki)
"Diet & Beauty Fair 2009" Performer with Junzo Tateiwa, Hitoshi Obe and Masaru Shirakawa; Toyko Big Site (Tokyo)
“Theatre Project - Art's terrorism- Pirate Princess"; Writer, Director and Performer with Jinsui Ikawa, Jinya Imai, Narumi Takizawa, Jiro Sakuma, Keiji Aiuchi , "Three folk song for Makiko" ; Composer Peter Garland ;Piano and Song; Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall (Yokohama)
"After 9.11 "; Co Producer and Co-Director with Yutaka Takahashi;LADY JANE (Tokyo)
"On the Lotus in the desert" Producer, Director and Performer with Yutaka Takahashi and Junzo Tateiwa; Ekoda Flying Teapot (Tokyo)
"Shirabyoshi-Sakuragi Association”; Performwe with Kakimi Obata, Tomomi Fujiki; canary Hall Hokutopia (Tokyo)
"On the Lotus in the Desert"; Director, Producer, Composer and Performer with Yuji Tsunemi, Junzo Tateiwa ; OTOYA KINTOKI (Tokyo)
"Yanagiya Koharu two people meeting" Producer Koharu Yanagiyal; Composer and Performer with Kuge Megumi and Koharu Yanagiya; Enban (Tokyo)
Founder Shoymo Group “Gaza Nenbutsushu” Artistic Director
"Memorial for Gaza"; Director, Producer and Shomyo Traditional Performer with Gaza Nenbutsushu(Tomomi Fujiki, Keiko Obata, Fumika Ohki, Yoshikatsu Yamamoto, Mayumi Fujiwara, Mie Ono; Daitokuji Templer (Saitama)
2010
"Manhattan Okina"; Director, Producer, Writer and Performer with Jiro Sakuma, Richard Emmert, Jinya Imai, Narumi Takizawa, Tomomi Fujiki; LE DECO (tokyo)
"On the Lotus In the Desert"; Director, Producer, Composer and Performer with YutakaTakahashi, Junzo Tateiwa; BAR LIALEH (Tokyo)
"Eurythmy and Shirabyoshi"; Co-director, Co-producer and Performer with, Yuki Matsuyama, Satoko Ichikawa; studio Lula (Yokohama)
"Sakurai Makiko, Talk about the journey of Israel-Performance of Diwan (Yemen Jewish songs) and Shirabyoshi ";Director and Performer; Cosmic Soul (Tokyo)
"Laila Tul UnSu"; Producer, Director, Composer and Performer with Jinya Imai, Junzo Tateiwa, Kyoko Oikawa; Desert on the Moon (Tokyo)
"On The Lotus In The Desert:" producer, director, composer, performer with Yutaka Takahash, Junzo Tateiwa; Cosmic Soul (Tokyo)
Founder Arab-Shirabyoshi Project Artistic Director
“Enban Jamboree 2010 summer-Dewan"; director performer with Koharu, Megumi Kuge; Shibuya O-NEST (Tokyo)
“Live Mandara 2:” performer with Charlie Takahashi, Junzo Tateiwa; Mandala 2 (Tokyo)
"Enta-Omri (You are my life)" director, composer, producer, performer with Arab Shirabyoshi Project; OTOYA KINTOKi (Tokyo)
"On The Lotus In the Desert:” director, composer, producer, performer with Yutaka Takahashi, Junzo Tateiwa; San jack (Tokyo)
"Harvest Board of Mid-Autumn"; director, composer producer performer with Arab Shirabyoshi Project; Desert of the Moon (Tokyo)
“Enta Omri and Shirabyoshi:” director, composer, producer, performer with Arab Shirabyoshi Project; OTOYA KINTOKI (Tokyo)
"Memorial for Gaza:" director, producer, performer with Gaza Nenbutsushu; Daitokuji Templer (Saitama)
"Water flow live" performer & water flow to the Executive Committee; LE DECO (Tokyo)
2011
"Manhattan Okina five Anniversary"; Director, Producer, Writer and Performer with Koya Tatsumi, Richard Emmert,Jinya Imai, Narumi Takizawa Tomomi Fujiki; LE DECO(Tokyo)
"VEM- Peacock Stura" ; Composer and Performer with Maiko Kiyohara, Maki Ota; LE DECO (Tokyo)
“Carl Stone Performance –DARDA’; Performer with Carl Stone; Loop Line(Tokyo)
“Egyptian Night Japan and Egypt 150th Anniversary Onmu-Kalthum Memorial "Enta-Omri (I am your life)" Sponsor Egyptian Embassy; Director, Composer and Performer with Arab Shirabyoshi Project; the Egyptian Embassy (Tokyo)
“CARL STONE DARDA MULT-CHANNEL BENEFIT PRATER PERFORMANCR FOR THE RECOVERY OF JAPAN”; Producer Carl Stone; Performer with Carl Stone), Hiromichi Sakamoto, Christophe Charles, Pearl Alexander: Super Delax(Tokyo)
"Shomyo - Buddhist music of majestic sound -National Treasure Kyokan and Kobo Daishi Emaki Exhibition”: Traditional Shomyo Performer: (Tokyo)
“Biwa Musician Club”: Lecture and Performer; Violon (Tokyo)
“On The Lotus In The desert”;Producer, Director, Composer and Performer with Yutaka Takahashi, Junzo Tateiwa; Ekoda Flyng Tea Pot (Tokyo)
“Bridergroom of Hanako – Kokeshi Puppet -Work in progress”: Director, Composer and Performer with Yumiko Tanaka,Tomomi Fujiki, Tokuhisa William, Junzo Tateiwa; Kokeshi Production Kazuo Ishiyama; Sora-an(Toyko)
“Whenever Wherever Festival 2011- John Cage-MusiCares Circus-"; Sponsor Asahi Beer; Performer; the Asahi Art Square (Tokyo)
"2011 Friends on The Hill Theater " Producer Yokohama Triennale 2011 cooperation program; Performer with Jinya Imai, Akira Yoshimatsu, Koike Ken-chan, Chie Takenaka, member of friends of the hill; Friends of the hill (Yokohama)
"Gaza memorial service" - in 2008, will read your name in the 1,352 people of the war dead by the Gaza invasion of the Israeli army”; Producer and Shomyo Traditional Performer with Gaza Nenbutsushu (Tomomi Fujiki, Fumika Ohki, Mie Ono Yoshikatsu Yamamoto); Reading: Diabu-Gassin, Mieko Shindo, Akemi Hosoi, Tomoko Ishida; Daitokuji Templer (Saitama)
" MIZU-NAGASHI Water flow live" Performer Makiko Sakurai & water flow to the Executive Committee ; LE DECO (Tokyo)
2012
"Tale of Genji"; Performance with Kagemitsu Hasegawa, Kunmei Hashimoto, Heian Gakusha Association; Kanak Hall (Yokohama)
"Exile"; Producer, Director, Composer and Performer with Che Chen, Yutaka Takahashi, Yoshida YuTatsuki; Café Lavanderia (Tokyo)
"Next Sunday Live";Oerformer with Che Chen; Next Sunday (Tokyo)
" Doll Festival concert ~ The work by Satoshi Tanaka"; Performer with YutakaTakahashi, Eri Umeno; Sora-an (Tokyo)
"Sakurai Makiko why do the Arab-Israeli music?”; Director and Composer with Arab Shirabyoshi Project; JICA Global Cafe (Tokyo)
"Arab Shirabyoshi Project"; Producer, Directore and Composer with Arab Shirabyoshi Project; Café Elegance (Chiba)
"Kesennuma cheer mini live" Sponsor network Orange community; Shiarabyoshi Performer; "Chiya of the tree" (Miyagi)
"Kesennuma Oshima support events- Story of Blue Nun"; Composer, Writer and Performer; Holiday Village Kesennuma Oshima (Miyagi)
“Biwa Musician Club”: Lecture and Performer with Kazuyuki Shiotaka; Violon (Tokyo)
"Manhattan Okina 2013";Director, Producer, Writer and Performer with Richard Emmert, Yoko Layer, Jinya Imai, Narumi Takizawa, Tomomi Fujiki, Akira Yoshimatsu; Ginza Noh-gakudo(Toyko)
“Lecture and Concert –Shirabyoshi-"; Director and Shirabyoshi Performer; Shinozaki culture Plaza lecture room (Tokyo)
"Heike Monogatari,Genpei Josuiki and Yoshitsuneki- a gift from Shirabyoshi" ; Director, Composer and Shirabyoshi Performer with Takako Kawachi ; Kissa Sakaiki (Tokyo)
"Heike Monogatari,Genpei Josuiki and Yoshitsuneki- a gift from Shirabyoshi" ; Director, Composer and Shirabyoshi Performer with Takako Kawachi ; No-no-Hana (Kamakura)
"Heike Monogatari,Genpei Josuiki and Yoshitsuneki- a gift from Shirabyoshi" ; Director, Composer and Shirabyoshi Performer with Takako Kawachi ; Tuzuki Minka Garden (Yokohama)
"Myo-on Lecture"; Performer with Lemon Nakanishi, YutakaTakahashi, Junzo Tateiwa; Ekoda Flying Tea Pot (Tokyo)
"Give a treat people, angry dog"; Performer with Seitaro Kuroda, Akira Sakata; Jofukuji-Temple (Kanagawa)
"Takahashi Festival";Perfomer with Yutaka Takahashi @ MANDAl-LA 2 (Tokyo)
"Mandala - spirits of Pantheon “; Producer, Director and Performer with Boku Zenei, Pearl Alexander; Kissa Sakaiki(Tokyo)
" SO-Ra- MI-MI Sofa- 2012 Friends on The Hill Theater " Producer Yokohama Triennale 2012 cooperation program; Performer with Jinya Imai, Akira Yoshimatsu, Koike Ken-chan, Chie Takenaka, member of friends of the hill; Okurayama Memorial Hall (Yokohama)
"Gaza Buddhist memorial service" in 2008, and read aloud the names of the war dead of 1,352 people by the Gaza invasion of the Israeli army -; Producer and Shomyo Traditional Performer with Gaza Nenbutsushu (Tomomi Fujiki, Fumika Ohki, Yoshikatsu Yamamoto, Mie Ono); Reading: Diabu-Gassin, Mieko Shindo, Akemi Hosoi, Tomoko Ishida; Daitokuji Templer (Saitama)
2013
"Manhattan Okina 2013";Director, Producer, Writer and Performer with Richard Emmert, Laura Sanson, Jinya Imai, Narumi Takizawa, Tomomi Fujiki, Akira Yoshimatsu; Sankei park (Yokohama)
“The Buddhist narrative in Now” ;Performer with Lemon Nakanishi, Yutaka Takahashi; Sora-an (Tokyo)
"Arab Shirabyoshi Projsect"; Director, Composer and Performer with Arab Shirabyoshi Project; OTOYA KINTOKI(Tokyo)
"Gender Dislocation-Sully Mahler songs from Sully Mahler Sutra" ;Co-director, composer and performer; Azabujuban Gallery(Tokyo)
"Children's Day"; Direcotor, Composer and Performer with Yuko Tanaka, Jinya Imai,Sigh of Pudding (Yuko Hiyama, Kumiko Kuribayashi, Yoko Hatanaka, Piromaru; Enban (Tokyo)
“Arab Shirabyoshi Projsct - Persian mysticism poet "bird of the words" of Attar, Avatamska Sutra, Suite by Manyoshu -”; Director, Composer and Performer with Arab Shirabyoshi Project; Ekoda FLYING TEAPOT (Tokyo)
“Bridergroom of Hanako – Kokeshi Puppet ”: Director, Composer and Performer with Tomomi Fujiki, Humino Yamamoto, Junzo Tateiwa, Akihito Ohama; Yokohama rapport Theater (Kanagawa)
"Shomyo and Shirabyoshi";Director, Lecture and Shirabyoshi Performer with Takako Kawauchi; Germany Cultural CenterIToyko)
"Silk Road Noh - Manhattan Okina"; Director, Producer, Writer and Performer with Richard Emmert, Jinya Imai, Narumi Takizawa, Tomomi Fujiki, Akira Yoshimatsu; Nigiwaiza(Yokohama)
"Transformation of Hana Kagura " Composer and Performer with Milan Sakamoto, Jinya Imai, Charlie Takahashi, Lemon Nakanishi;NATTERU House (Tokyo)
"Birds of the words"; Producer, Director, Composer and Performer with Junzo Tateiwa, Taro Terahara , Shuichi Kitagawa; OTAYA KINATOKI (Tokyo)
"Gaza Buddhist memorial service" - in 2008, it will read your name of the war dead of 1,352 people by the Gaza invasion of the Israeli army - Producer and Shomyo Traditional Performer with Gaza Nenbutsushu (Tomomi Fujiki, Fumika Ohki, Mie Ono); Reading: Diabu-Gassin, Mieko Shindo, Akemi Hosoi, Tomoko Ishida; Daitokuji Templer (Saitama)
2014
"Words of Birds - Persian mysticism poet "bird of the words" of Attar, Avatamska Sutra, Suite by Manyoshu -”; Director, Composer and Performer with Arab Shirabyoshi Project; Producer, Director, Composer and Performer with Arab Shirabyoshi Project; OTOYA KINTOKI(Tokyo)
“Biwa Musician Club”: Lecture and Performer with Kazuyuki Shiotaka ; Violon (Tokyo)
"New Noh work-The Shore of The Minister ; Producer, Writer, Director, Composer and Performer with Jinya Imai, Hiroko Okawa, , Hiroshi Obiki, Yuko Tanaka, Sigh of the Pudding (Yuko Hiyama, Yoko Hatanaka, Kumiko Kuribayashi, Akemi Mochida, Chiaki Hirasawa; Enban(Tokyo)
" Die Wasserfrau (Woman of Water)"; Sponsor Butterbrot & Bier by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service); Writer, Director, Composer and Performer with Ruben Kuklinsky, Sura Bade, Tokijo Hanasaki, Takako Kawachi, Masako Naganuma; Translatior: Ruben Kuklinsky, Opuhyurusu Kashima-Rainoruto, Mami Kanamoto;Germany Cultural Center (Tokyo)
"Words of Birds"; Producer, Director, Composer and Performer with Junzo Tateiwa, Taro Terahara , Shuichi Kitagawa; Ekoda Flying Tea pot(Tokyo)
“Silk Road Lecture- Sufism of song and dance-"; Lecture;Organizer Japan Silk Road Cultural Center; Minnano- Hiroba (Tokyo)
“26th Donseki Calligraphy Exhibition-Higaki 2014"; Writer nad Performer with Jinya Imai; Maebashi citizen Cultural Center(Gunma)
"Shaman song"; Producer, Director, writer and Performer with Akira Sakata, HIKO, Keiji Haino ; Kid Ai Rack Hall (Tokyo)
“6th Tokyo Creative Arts Festival 2014 -Transition and Practice of Tendai Shomyo"; Organizer: Tokyo creative Arts Festival Executive Committee; Lecture and Workshop; Nakano ZERO (Tokyo)
“Shoymo and Shirabyoshi performances”; Sponsor University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies; Helmut Staling Auditorium (Michigan)
“Shomoy and Shirabyoshi performances”; Sponsor University of Massachusetts Asian Art and Culture program; Bowker Auditorium (Massachusetts)
“Shomoy performances”; Sponsor Dominican University; (San Francisco)
“Shomyo and Shirabyoshi performances” Sponsor Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture; University of Southern California (Caloforinia)
“Shoymo and Shirabyoshi performance”; Sponsor California-Irvine University of East Asia department; (CA)
"Gaza Buddhist memorial service" - in 2008, it will read your name of the war dead of 1,352 people by the Gaza invasion of the Israeli army - Producer and Shomyo Traditional Performer with Gaza Nenbutsushu (Tomomi Fujiki, Fumika Ohki, Mie Ono); Reading: Diabu-Gassin, Mieko Shindo, Akemi Hosoi, Tomoko Ishida; Daitokuji Templer (Saitama)
2015
“Specific Secret Protection Law Opposite Creative Ability-The Shore of The Minister ; Producer, Writer, Director, Composer and Performer with Shigeaki Tarukawa, Takasi Sakurai, Motoo Takasaki, Jinya Imai, Hiroko Okawa, Hiroshi Obiki, Yuko Tanaka, Sigh of the Pudding (Yuko Hiyama, Yoko Hatanaka, Kumiko Kuribayashi, Akemi Mochida; Kissa Sakaiki(Tokyo)
“Sakurai Makiko Shomyo Live”; Space N-AS (Tokyo)
“Shirabyoshi Perfomance “; Sponosr Yoshi Ume Yoshi Machi-tei (Tokyo)
“Manhattan Okina”;Cast; Makiko Sakurai (Okina),;Author, Scriptwriter, performer, director and producer with Richard Emmert (Flower spirt), Jubilith Moore (Taller), Akira Yosimatsu (Jiutai), Tomomi Fujiki (Shomyo), Jinya Imai ( Kotsuzumi), Narumi Takizawa (Ryuteki and Nohkan); Rakudo-an (Tokyo)
"Gaza Buddhist memorial service" ; Producer and Shomyo Traditional Performer with Gaza Nenbutsushu(Makiko Sakurai,Tomomi Fujiki, Fumika Ohki, Mie Ono); Reading:Manabu (Oyauchi, Takashi Oizumi, Yumiko Ono, Ikuko Takekawa, Tomomi Yanagisawa, Masako, Yoshida, Jinsui Ikawa, Mieko Shindo, Akemi Hosoi);Gandhi Mahal(Tokyo)
“Shirabyoshi dedicatory”Performaer: Producer, director an performer with Fumika Oki, Michiyo Miura, Mariko Kono, Maki Matsunaga, Saori Takahashi ; Amino Shrine(Kyo-taango-shi, Kyoto)
“Shaman Song”Works (all world premier);Producer, Director and Performer; “Count down Melt down” by Makiko Sakurai;“Tatara Princess”+”Radioactive Dust Song” collaboration work by Miran Sakamoto and Makiko Sakurai ;Bar Isshee(Tokyo)
“Waka and Chinese folk song ~popular song night~”; Performer Makiko Sakurai (vocal and Shomyo) ;Producer and Performer Yuataka Takahashi (guitar): Sora-an(Tokyo)
“THUKA-MAI〜Japanese praying, dance and music〜”:Producer Hikaru Toho; Performer,Composer and Choreography Makiko Sakurai: Music player Hiroshi Suzuki, Michiko Yamada, Tomoko Kageyama, Takefumi Kobayasghi, Akemi Ota, Miho Kiwa and Chizuru Fukuhara; Performer Michika Ida, Ome to Oikra and Makiko Sakurai; Produce velvet sn products : The Room DAIKAMAYAMA (Tokyo)
"POLYGONOLA~ symposium and performance";
Performer: Yuji Takahashi (Musician), Makiko Sakurai(Composer), Haruko Komoda (Musicologist), Junichi Konuma (Musical critic), Tonika Ichinose(Composer), Naoki Sakurai(Botanist), Reizan Tanaka (Shakuhachi Player), Tamao Inano (Percussionist), Yosdhiko Kanda(Percusshionist), Kazuyuki Shiotaka (Biwa Player)
; Oumi-Gakudo Tokyo Opera city 3F(Tokyo)
”The Conference of the Birds” by Farid Attar and “The Birds” from Manyoshu;
Makiko Sakurai (Solo performance):
Hakutsuru Museum(Kobe)
“Moon, Dance, Koto and Song”;
Makiko Sakurai(Shirabyosi,Syomyo);
Jikkoin-temple(Kyoto)
“Shirabyoshi singing and dancing show at Yoshicho-tei at Yoshiume as registration tangible cultural property”;
Makiko Sakurai ( performance):
Yoashiume Yoshicho-tei(Tokyo)
BAJITOFU “Turn a deaf Ear”;
Dakuro+Makiko Sakurai, mn, slag:NANAHARI Oriental Building basementfloor(Tokyo)
“Makiko Sakurai(Shoymo and Vocal)+Yutaka Takahashi(Guitar)”;Bar Isshee(Tokyo)
Study meeting of AGALIMU Chorus group vol.14
“Introduction of song at Heian time” workshop & live performance;
Guest lecturer: Makiko Sakurai:Tokiwa 1-6-3, Koto-ku, Tokyo
“Shomyo Workshop”;BH house(Tokyo)
"SHIRABYOSHI and OKOTO";
Makiko Sakurai and Michiyo Yagi;
Bar Isshee(Toyko)
"Gaza Buddhist memorial service"in 2008, it will read your name of the war dead of 1,352 people by the Gaza invasion of the Israeli army;
Performers: Jinsui Ikawa, Makiko Sakurai,Gaza Nenbutsushu (Tomomi Fujiki, Fumika Ohki, Mie Ono) Reading: Diabu-Gassin, Akemi Hosoi;
Daitokuji Temple(Kawaguchishi, Saitama)
"HAMATORA Festival in Yokohama";
Noh piece “Kudara Kwannon(Goddess of mercy)”
~transfer of Horyuji-temple, refugees from North Korea and Fukushima nuclear power station. Kudara Kawannon descends?
Pefromer: Makiko Sakurai(Shite) , Karuaki Tarukawa(Waki), Takashi Matsui, Mtoo Maehashi and Akira Yoshimatsu(Ji-Utai), Narumi Takizawa(Noh-kan), Takako Kawauchi(Okawa), James Faner(Kotsuzumi);
Noge Share(Yokohama)
“Washi Tales” on April 24 and 25 : Performer with Shonosuke Okura, Shisui Arai and Sonoko Soeda ; Wirer and Director, Elise Thoron ; Desiner, Kyoko Ibe, Writer and Performer, Karen Kandel ; Asian Society (New York)
April 4 2016; Performer with Keknji Kuroda; Performer Joe Potts, Rick Potts, Joseph Hammer, John Wiese, Gabie Strong, Ted Byrnes, Vetza and Mitchell Brown; Blue whale (LA)
“Island Of Misfit Toys#15 on April 5 2016; Performer with Kanji Kuroda; Performer Brad Laner, Carla Bozulich, Points Of Friction, Daft, Plus DJ Don Bolles; La Cita Bar (LA)
Dance Drama“ Water Women”
Perfomance: Makiko Sakurai; Original work; writing; Director; part of Ohara Otoji, Tomoko Ueki;Narration, Tokijo Hanasaki ;JIuta-mai; part of Oiwa, Kolar Iori; Nihon Buyo; part of Kiyohime, Takako Kawaucih;Okawa, Masako Naganuma; Shamisen;
Kyoro International Conference Center(Kyoro)
Memorial Service for GAZA Reading out of 2,138martyrs from Gaza atacck by Israeli army during chanting “Sukhavati sutra” by Shomyo.
Service: ”GAZA Nenbutsushu”; Makiko Sakurai, Tomomi Fujiki, Fumika Oki, Mie Ono
Reading out: Keiko Obata, Masako Yoshida, Jinsui Ikawa, Yumiko Ono, Tomomi Yanagisawa, Mihiyo Miura, Michiyo Kokubu
;Gandhi Mahar(Toyko)
“POLYGONOLA in2016 at Kobe ~The music instrument from Water Melon’s of frequent of current〜 ”
lecture performance and symposium
lecture: Naoki Sakurai
Performer: Aikio Suzuki(Polygonola), Satoshi Shimura(Shakuhachi), Makiko Sakura(Polygonola, Vocal)
;KOBE STUDIO Y3 C.A.P.(the Conference on Art and Art Project)
c/o Kobe Center for Overseas Migration and Cultural Interaction 5F(Kobe)
“Shirabyoshi and Song and Dance from Manyoshu (Female dance song and dance at 11thcentury and 8th century anthology of Japanese poetry)”
Performers : Makiko Sakurai(Shirabyoshi, song and dance), Jinya Imai ( Kotsuzumi - Japanese hand drum)
;Gakudoan(Tokyo)
George Lewis “ENDLESS SHOUT:” “A Line Becomes a Circle:” Performer as Shomyo and Shirabyosi with Miya Masaoka composer and Sou, Ann Moss soprano, Joel Davel percussion: ICA(Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania(Philadelphia, USA)
“ Japanese WAKA and Chines folksong”:Makiko Sakurai (vocal, Shomyo and Shirabyoshi) and Yutaka Takahashi (guitar):Guest: Wang Shan (gourd flute and gourd Sho):Kushamanbe(Tokyo)
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A Line Become A Circle by Miya Masaoka a multimedia chamber opera by Miya Masaoka featuring Shomyo Buddhist chant and western operatic styles. based on haikus written by her distant relative, Masaoka Shiki”:Makiko Sakuri: Shomyo vocals: Miya Masaoka:Koto and electronics; Ann Moss; soprano: Joel Davel: percussion:Theatre of Yugen San Francisco at Project Artaud:Sponsor by Japan Foundation, sfac (san francisco aret communication)
George Lewis “ENDLESS SHOUT:” “A Line Becomes a Circle:” Performer as Shomyo and Shirabyosi with Miya Masaoka composer and Sou, Ann Moss soprano, Joel Davel percussion: ICA(Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania(Philadelphia, USA)
Crossing over “Noh” Participating Theatre work “Minister on the shore”:Author and script: Makiko Sakurai
Performer: Makiko Sakurai (King of Ryukyu land), Akira Yoshimatsu (King of Japan), Hiroyo Shimomura (Sanshin), Michiko Yamada(Noh-kan, Shinobue), lemon Nakanish(Duram)
: Yokohama Nigiwaiza Noge Schale(Yokohama)
“MIYABI All kind of Dance”~conveys of love~:Performer:Makiko Sakurai (Shitabyoshi), Masayuki Fujii(Noh player),Shuga Fujii(Noh player), Takhisa Suda (flamenco guitar), Yoko Uekazu(Parma), Yachiyo Usami and Ken Nagata (Baile),Yoshika (created dance), Kazumi Hidai (created dance), Kahunah Kai( Otojiku dance): The Birthplace 6F Botany(Tokyo)
"Gaza Buddhist memorial service"in 2008, it will read your name of the war dead of 1,352 people by the Gaza invasion of the Israeli army:Performers: Jinsui Ikawa, Makiko Sakurai, Gaza Nenbutsushu (Tomomi Fujiki, Fumika Ohki, Mie Ono) :Daitokuji-temple(Saitama)
MIZUNAGASHI:Choja Studio(Yokohama city)
2017
“Manhattan Okina new piece for Noh”
Autur and script: Makiko Sakurai
Pefromer: Makiko Sakurai (Okina), Akira Yoshimatsu (Flower spirit), Masako Yoshida (Jiutai), Laura Sampson (Ai), Yumiko Ono (Shomyo), Jinya Imai (Kotudumi), Narumi Takizawa (Noh-kan and Ryuteki)
:Tanaka family residence in old time, Wakan 1floor(Saitama)
”Citrus OUNA~conveys of love~”
Performer: Makiko Sakurai(author, script, director and Tangerine), Miran Sakamoto( Citrus tachibana), Jubilith Moore (Orange), Shunsuke Tashiro (Cuckoo), Akira Yoshimatsu (Bulbul), Tomomi Fujiki(Jiutai chorus), Michiko Yamada( Iwabue,Nokan and Ryuteki), Jinya Imai(Kotuzumi):RAKUDOAN(Toyko)
Zinashi Shakuhachi and Tendai Shomyo “Shoymo Reiji”:Makiko Sakurai (Ohara style of Tendai sect),Zenho Shimura (The pipe of 6Sahku, 3Shaku 3sun, 2Shaku made by Shuetsu Kondo and etc.,):Gakudoan(Toyko)
Polygonola flat musical instrument〜lecture, performance and workshop~ Working progress for the instrument with timbre and scale from maturity of water melon. CD release event:Lecture: Naoki Sakurai (producer) Performer: Makiko Sakurai(voice) :chaabee(Toyko)
"A Line Becomes A Circle":A new Noh Opera (reading) composed by Miya Masaoka,Libretto: haiku from Shiki, Haiku poet1896-1904:Featuring Makiko Sakurai (Buddhist Shomyo chant, Noh)
Makiko is flying from Japan for thisexclusive appearance one night only!
Ann Moss, Soprano
Chris Nappi, Percussion
Miya Masaoka, composition, koto
Ethan Edwards, Video Projection:ROULETTE(NY,U.S.A
“Gaza Buddhist memorial service” in 2014
;Performer: Makiko Sakurai and Gaza Nenbutsushu (Fumika Oki, Mie Ono, Tomomi Fujiki) ;Gandi Mahar(Tokyo)
Japanese poem and Chinese folk song;Performer: Makiko Sakurai(Shomyo and vocal), Yutaka Takahashi (guitar)
Guest performer: Wang shan(gourd pipes flute);chaabee(Tokyo)
An Experiment in Morgana 10years Anniversary
MORGANA(Kokubunji,Tokyo) ; director: Higo Hiroshi ; Performers: Makiko Sakurai(Shomyo and Shirabyoshi),Tomoko Katabami(Percussion ),Hitomi Koyama(Koto) , Dakuro(electro), Higo Hiroshi(bass), etc.,
Biwa Tradition and Shomyo Chant,
Shisui Arai and Makiko Sakurai; Alton Auditorium
WashiTales performance and Talk Back
Cross-cultural Storytelling, Elise Thron and the performers ;Stockton University, Art Galleries
Makiko Sakurai(vocal) and Yutaka Takahashi(guitar), Asako Hirayama(vocal, melodica), Sara Hirokawa(vocal, melodica) and Yutaka Takahashi(guitar)
;Bar Isshee, Tokyo
“Gaza Buddhist memorial service"in 2008, it will read your name of the war dead of 1,352 people by the Gaza invasion of the Israeli army, performer: Makiko Sakurai, Gaza Nenbutsushu (Tomomi Fujiki, Fumika Ohki, Mie Ono,Tomomi Fujiki) ;kabaai(Toyko)
「MIZUNAGASI」live profane; all night till next morning ceremony “MIZUNAGASHI” officiating shaman:Makiko Sakurai, Shirabyoshi : Tomomi Fujiki, Fumika Oki; CHOJA Studio(Yokohama city)
"Manhattan Okina" new piece fro Noh;Author and script: Makiko Sakurai
Pefromer:Makiko Sakurai (Okina), Akira Yoshimatsu (Flower spirit), Laura Sampson (Ai), Yumiko Ono (Shomyo),Masako Yoshida (Mask box), Takashi Sakura, Motoo Takasaki, Shigeaki Tarukawa(Jiutai),Yoko Uematsu(Noh-kan, and Fue), Asako Abe(Okawa), Jinya Imai (Kotudumi);”Kyu-Tanaka-tei”(Kawaguchi-shi, Saitama,Japan)
"Improvisation for Japanese music"Performers: Makiko Sakurai(voice), Junpei Otsuka(Sho),Yasuko Niimura(biwa), Kosetsu Imanishi(so)
Jinya Imai(Kotsuzumi), Ko Ishikawa(sho), Scott(Shamisen, Shakuhachi), Chiyuki Tomioka(voice)
Etsuko Takezawa(Jiuta shamisen),Akihito Obama(Shakuhachi), Miki Maruta(so)
Hiroe Kato(flower artist), Chima(painting in Chinese ink), Toyo Matsubaea(boto), Akiko Nakayama(alive painting): Esorabako(Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)
"Memorial Service for GAZA"
Reading out of 2,138 martyrs from Gaza attack by Israeli army in 2014 and 61martyrs from shoot by Israeli army in 2018 during chanting “Sukhavati sutra”by Shomyo.
Service: ”GAZA Nenbutsushu”; Makiko Sakurai, Tomomi Fujiki, Fumika Oki:Gandhi Mahar(Chiyoda-ku, Toyko)
Koedai r workshop ”Shomyo intrdutction”(Itabashi, Toyko)
Lecturer: Makiko Sakurai
Gaza memorial Buddhist service
At chaabee (Kotoku, Toyko)
Prayer: Gaza Nnbutsushu(Makiko Sakurai, Fumika Oki, Tomomi Fujiki)
Mizu Nagashi
At Choja studio (Yokohama)
Ceremony “Mizu Nagashi”: Makiko Sakurai(Shinto priest), Fumika Oki and Tomomi Fujiki(shrine maiden)
2019
“Smallest Theatre in this world”
Violon (Asagaya, Tokyo)
Mizuho Joda ( poem reading, poem create and Poligonola)
Makiko Sakurai(Shomyo, Shirabyoshi, Ryuteki and Plogonaola)
Manhttan Okina
Kyu- Tanaka family residence (Kawaguchi city, Saitama)
Makiko Sakurai(author, script and Okina), Akira Yoshimatsu(Flower spirit), Seiich Kawano(Ai), Yumiko Ono(Shoymo), Masako Yoshida(Jiutai, Menbako), Jimya Imai(Kotsuzumi), Yoko Uematsu(Nokan and Shinobue)
Sponsorship: Za-Okina, associate: Kawaguchi city and educational committee in Kawaguchi city, co-sponsorship: Kirakuen
“January deluxe”
At Bar Isshee(Sendagi, Tokyo)
Makiko Sakurai(vocal and Shoymo), Yutaka Takahashi(guitar)
Wa-live Ryogoku-tei vol.5 produce by Kiyohiko Fukuhara
Oedo Ryogoku-tei (Ryogou, Tokyo)
Mizuno Enkyoku: Makiko Sakurai (Shirabyoshi)
“The children from Tales of Heike” ~ The children from Japanese classical literature~
Biwa singing to own accompaniment “the late emperor suicide by drowning” by Mai Moriya: Chikuzen Biwa
New product of Kumi-odori and Noh “Tales of Heikte in Okinawa” by Makiko Ssakurai (author, script and Shite: mother of dugong), Akira Yoshimatsu (Waki: Antoku), Toshimihi Niigaki:Sanshin, Masatugu Kinjo: Kumiodori script and choreograph)
New product of Ro-kyoku “Fukusho deacapitaion” by Makiko Sakurai:script, Kotaro Azumaya: Ro-kyoku, Kingyo Mzuno:shamisen
Luka and Heal The World: Makiko Sakurai(vocal), Keiichi Ai(guitar)
: Koenji Grain(Koenji Kita, Tokyo)
April 28th ”Concert by Hirai Sumiko memorial music promotion society; Makiko Sakurai(Shomyo, Shirabyoshi), Jinya Imai(Kotsuzumi), member of Hirai Sumiko memorial promotion society
May 16th “Takahashi festival vol.5 (2019)“;Makiko Sakurai(vocal), Yutaka Takahashi (guitar), Shutokapu, Nanohana orchestra, Antigone, 2525kagyo, etc.
Hyper Noh “Nymphaea“
August 23rd
Shite: Makiko Sakurai(fairy, Jeanne d'Arc, Ryuteki flute)
Waki: Keiji Haino ( Claude Monet、Polygonola)
Koken: Hiroe Kato (lotus, Ikebana)
@atelier DAI “Q ”Geijutsu(Tokyo)
“Shitabyoshi- Concert in the harvest moon”
Spt. 14th
Performer: Makiko Sakurai (Shirabyoshi, Ryuteki-flute)
Navigater: Yujin Okano
@chaabee(Tokyo)
“The Shomyo service for GAZA people”
July 6th
serve: “GAZA Nenbutsushu”; Makiko Sakurai, Fumiko Oki, Mie Ono, Tomomi Fujiki
@ Gandhi Mahal(Tokyo)
"Morgana Jikkennshitum, aniverasary for 12 years"
Sep.22th
Performaer: Makiko Sakurai (Shirabyoshi, Shoymo), Gaku Ishihara(g), tomot hurdy gurdy, Sara Miyamoto(cello), Yuichi Onoue (Kosatusko), Ribbon Contorolar, etc.,
@Takara building B1F(Kokubnji,Tokyo)
”MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR GAZA PEOPLE” December 28th Calling over the name of martyrs 1,352 people by Israel- Gaza conflict in 2008 and martyrs to December 2019 from July 2019.
Looking for participants for calling over their names.@At Café des soleils(Setagaya, Tokyo)
”Manhattan OKINA”
Jun., 12th
Place: Japanese style of room atTanaka family’ House (National important cultural properties)(Kawaguchi, Saitama)
scenario:Makiko Sakurai
Performers: Makiko Sakurai (Okina), Akira Yoshimatsu(Flower sprit), Seiichi Kawano(Ai), Mai Moriya(Shomyo), Masako Yoshida(Jiutai and Menbako), Yoko Uematsu(Nohkan and Shinobue), Jinya Imai(Kotsuzumi)
Mask: Hideta Kitazawa
Stage design: Seiji Iimura
”Noise SHIRABYOSHI”
Feb.27
@Kagurane(Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo),
Makiko Sakurai+ASTRO,Praymate,maguna-tech,DJ: belle
”Chant of David, Hymnus of Nyorai”
March 14th,
@Ebira hall (Tokyo),Performers: Makiko Sakurai (shomyo), Genki Sakurai(Gregorian chant)
”Gift from Shirabyoshi”
Mar. 21,
@“Kokoshiba”(Kawaguchi, Saitama)
Performaer: Makiko Sakurai
June 6th
Social distance performance in full moon “Suigetsu (water and moon) Kannon”
At: Ayase river (Ageo, Saitama)
Performers: Makiko Sakurai (Sirabyoshi and Shoymo), Lua Takeshi (Kacapi and Uni)
July 2nd
Social distance performance in full moon “Suigetsu (water and moon) Kannon”
At: Iruam river (Hanno, Saitama)
Performers: Makiko Sakurai (Sirabyoshi and Shoymo), Lua Takeshi (Kacapi and Uni)
August 29th
Online Live at Rakudoan
At: Rakudoan (Kanda, Tokyo)
Performers: Makiko Sakurai (Sirabyoshi and Shoymo), Lua Takeshi (Kacapi and Uni)
March 29th
"Moon river"Two pieces of translation to old Chinese in 7th century and old Japanese in 12th century by “Moon river” by Johnny Mercer. Performance at Naruki river, Oume city, on full moon.
performers: Takeshi Lua (Uni, Kecapi, singing bowl, etc.,) Makiko Sakurai(Shirabyoshi, Shomyo), Akira Yoshimatsu(Noh Atai, dance)
Place: Kawabe river(Tokyo)
ERTH DAY @ Jiyugaoka “Present from Shirabyoshi” by Makiko Sakurai
place: Jiyugaoka Mardi Gras(Tokyo)
〜The six realms by Shomyo, Biwa and dance〜
Performers: Mai Moriya (Chikuzen biwa), Yasuko Ishibiki(Satsuma biwa), Makiko Sakurai (shomyo and Nenbutsu dance)
place: Rakufoan(Tokyo)
Gaza memorial service
Calling martyrs by killing Israeli invasion in year 2014 and 2021 with ceremony “Shomyo reiji”
Performers: Makiko Sakurai, Keiichi Ai, Takahide Kobayashi, Masdako Yoshida
「Okinawa-Heike family tales」 for dugong
Place: Yoyogi Noh butai, Tokyo
author and script: Makiko Sakurai
performers: Makiko Sakurai (fisherman and mother of dugong), Akira Yoshimatsu(Tomomori crab and Antoku), Taku Sato(Noritsune crab), Takahide Kobayashi(Ienaga crab), Sakae Ebisawa(ukulele),
choreography of Kumi odori: Shinji Kinjo
lecture as Ai kyogen: Kotaro Ichikawa
planning and production: mari-pla
“Shirabyoshi evening”
Place: Yoshi-ume;Tokyo
Special performance “Salon for Japanese music by Teishon Shiomura”
Place: Shimokitazawa Alley Holl, Tokyo
Performers:Yuya Yamamoto(marionette), Makiko Sakurai(Shirabyoshi and Shoymo), Masae Tachibana(Bamboo orchestra), Mika Tsuboi(actor), Sadajuro Mochizuki (Kotsuzumi)
Hogaku(Japanese music-salon by Teison Shiobara
Performers: Makiko Sakurai(Shirabyoshi), Sadajuro Mochizuki (Hogaku percussion, Teison Shiobara(Nagauta)
Place: Shimokitazawa Alley Holl; Tokyo
Samuel sutra
Place: Holl DOZ;Tokyo
Performers: Teison Shiobara(Nagauta by Japanese), Takahide Kobayashi(Samuel; Koodiyattam by malayāḷam), Keiichi Ai(Eli; Pansori by Korean), Makiko Sakurai(God: Tendai shoymo by China, reading: Hebrew)
Text by Makiko Sakurai
Memorial Service for Gaza People~Calling over for martyrs 1,352 in year 2008, 170 in 2012 and 35 on July to December in 2021 by Israeli invasion while chanting shomyo “Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra”
Recruitment people for calling over
At: Studio Lamp , Shinjuku, Tokyo
Pralyers(Tendai shomyo): Makiko Sakurai, Takahide Kobayasi, Masako Yoshida
calling over: Tamiko Otsuki, Masako Suzuki, etc.,
Memorial of Gaza invasion 2014, ” يا سني My grandfather”
Date:July 8th Performer:Makiko Sakurai (Shirabyoshi, Shomyo and vocal),
Hoppy Kamiyama (Digital president, Slide geisha),Keisuke Ohta(violin)
Place:FJ’s Bar, Meguro-ku, Tokyo
GAZA memorial
Date:July 10th
Servers: Makiko Sakurai, Takhide Kobayashi, Masako Yoshida, Yukana Yamaguchi
Place:studio With The Heart; Bunjkyo-ku, Tokyo
Tale of Okinawa Heike 2022
Actors: Makiko Sakurai ; fisherman, mother of dugong, Akira Yoshimatsu ; Tomomori crab, Amtoku emperor, Taku Sato ; Noritsune crab, Takahide Kobayashi ; Ienaga crab
Direction of Kumi odori choreograph : Shinji Kinjo
Derection of Kumi odori song : Toshimichi Aragaki
Ai Kyogen: “voice of mermaid!? Ecorogic dugon research by Kotaro
Place: Yoyogi Nohgakudo, Shibuya, Tokyo
Shirabyoshi, associated with water Numbers ;“Horai mountain”, ”Goddess of Mercy for moon on the sea”, Water Shirabyoshi”, ”Heaven bridge”, “Moon river” Date:August 3rd
Performer:
Makiko Sakurai
Place:Yoshiume Yoshicho-tei, Chuo-ku, Toyko
Sirabyoshi+ Java Gamlen “Moon River〜Benewe Awewaynag wulan〜”
Date:Sep.11
Performer:Makiko Sakurai(Shirabyoshi) Java Gamlen”Ranban Sari”; Kayo Kimura, Yukitoshi Morishige, Shungo Kato and more 2members
Place:Tnnoji temple, Taito-ku, Tokyo
Shirabyoshi study meeting
Date:Sep.18
Lecturer and performer: Makiko Sakurai
Shirabyoshi began in end of Heian time. They perform with singing and dancing.
What is Shirabyoshi? How have they come? This study meeting is offering lecture and performance.
Place:Hikari no Uma、Shinjuku, Tokyo
Against State Faunal of Shinzo Abe
Date:27th September
Performer:Makiko Sakkurai(Shirabyoshi, vocal), Toshiaki Komori(piano), Teison Siobara(nagauta), Hiroe Oki(Shamisen), Haruyo Hosei(Fue), Genki Sakurai(Gregorian chant),
Dakuro(modular), Akira Yoshimatsu(Noh dance)
Place:Shibuya NoStyle, Shibuya, Tokyo
“Performance at Full moon”
Date:Oct. 10th, Mon.
Performers: Takseshi Lua (Uni. Kechapi, drum), Makiko Sakurai (Shirabyoshi), Akira Yoshimatsu (Noh dance and sing), Sosen Imai (follower arrangement)
Place:Kikuna Beach Resort; Kikuna Minami-Shimoura cho, Miura city, Kanagawa
Chinese folk song ~rich melody by each language, Chinese and Japanese~
Date:Sun.Oct.16th
Performers: Makiko Sakurai (Shirabyoshi and Shanghai)
Place:Soki men Shanghai Nakaku, Yokohama
“Japanese song, Chinese song”
Date:26th Nov
Performers: Makiko Sakurai(vocal), Yutaka Takahashi(guitar)
Place:Mar Isshee;Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
“Chitoshe no Sho (calligraphy), Song of Hitomaro
Event: Song and dance of Hitomaro”
Dec. 3rd
Performer: Makiko Sakurai (Shirabyoshi)
Place: UNAC, Minato-ku, Tokyo
polyphony of Shomyo and gregorian chant PARTⅡ ”Lament of bodhisattva・compassionate of Cyrus”
17th Dec.
performers: Makiko Sakurai(Shomyo and Shirabyoshi), Genki Sakurai(goregorian chant)
place: Ebara hall (6minutes from Hatano-day station at Tokyo)
“Memorial Service for Gaza People”
Calling over for martyrs 1,352 in year 2008, 170 in 2012 and July to December in 2022 by Israeli invasion while chanting shomyo “Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra”Recruitment people for calling over
25th Dec.
Pralyers(Tendai shomyo): Makiko Sakurai, Takahide Kobayasi, Masako Yoshida,Yukana Yamaguchi
calling over: Tamiko Otsuki, Yusuke Ishis, Maria Umeda, etc.
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At: Studio Lamp , Shinjuku, Tokyo
“MIAZU NAGASHI”
Dec. 30th
Performer: Makiko Sakurai (priest of MIZU NAGASHI, Shirabyoshi, Shomyo), Wakan Saotome (vocal, Shmiasen), Jinaya Imai (Kotsuzumi), etc.
Place: Choja studio ( Naka-ku, Yokohama)
2023
“Manhattan Okina 2023”
Jan. 8th
Performers,
Shite(Okina): Makiko Sakurai, Waki(flower spirt) and Ai kyogen: Akira Yoshimatsu, Menbako and Jiutai: Masako Yoshida, Shomyo: Yukana Yamaguchi, Noh-kan, Shinobue:
Hiromi Kaneko, Kotsuzumi: Tazae Mochizuki
Place: Rakudoan; Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Improvisation live “Music dose New Year Soup”
Jan. 10th
Performer: Makiko Sakurai, Golem Sato, etc.
Place: Kobo Musica: Arakawa-ku, Tokyo
Lecture performance “transition of Shirabyoshi”
Jan. 29th
Lecturer and performer: Makiko Sakurai
Place: Sahkujii library 2F conference room Nerima-ku, Tokyo
Hyper Noh “NAGASUNEHIKO” ~sad Independence Japan~
Sat. Feb 11th
original and scenario:Makiko Sakurai
Performers:
Leading actress (village woman, NAGASUNEHIKO):Makiko Sakurai
Supporting actor (Ninsho):Akira Yoshimatsu
musicians:Dakuro(modular)、 HIKO(dram)、Toshiaki Komori(piano)
Place: Nanahari: Oriental building BF,Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Dedication by Shirabyoshi at Koma shrine
Sat.April 4th Performer: Sakuragi-kai (delegation by Makiko Sakurai)
Hanako’s bridegroom Sat. April 22 Original and script: Makiko Sakurai
Performers: Makiko Sakurai (vocal and narrator), Teison(Nagaura, narrator), Asakichi Kineya(Shamisen), Junzo Tateiwa(Darbuka and Riq) Place: Jiyugaoka mardigras, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
The day of NAKBA Mon. May 15, 2023 Performers: Makiko Sakurai (Shirabyoshi), HIKO(drum), Kenichi Takeda(Taisho-koto)
Iris crown 2023 Date: Sat., June, 3rd
Original and scenario: Makiko Sakurai
Performers:
Leading player: Makiko Sakurai (boy and unmarried imperial princess at the Ise Grand Shrine)
Support player: Akita Yoshimatsu (boy and flower administrator)
Chorus: Genki Sakurai, Taku Sato, Kota Yanagishima
Setar: Shuichi Kitagawa
Frame drum and Polygonola: Genya Ishizaki
Place: Ikuta ryokuchi at Iris garden, Kawasaki, Kanagawa
Dance and music with firefly Saturday, June 6th, 2023
performers : Makiko Sakurai(chant and dance), Akira Yoshimatsu (chant and dance), Takeshi Lua (kacapi and Psaltery)
place: “Haraichi” , Hanno
Gaza memorial
Reading out 2,138 martyr’s name when Gaza was invaded by Israel army in 2014 and
form November 2022 to June 2023 during chant Shomyo “Inzei Amida sutra”.
Sunday, June 9th in 2023
Place: Studio Lump Shin Okubo, Tokyo
Dugong Noh “Tale of Okinawa Heike”
Mon. July 17th 2023
original and scenario: Makiko Sakurai
Performers:
Makiko Sakurai (fisherman and mother of dugong), Akira Yoshimatsu (Tomomori crab
and Antoku emperior), Taku Sato (Noritsune crab), Takahide Kobayashi (Ienaga crab),
Makoto Kurachi (ukulele)
Lecture” voice of dugong”, lecturer : Kotaro Ichikawa
Direction for Kumiodori and choreographer: Shinji Kinjo
Direction for Kumiodori song: Toshimichi Niigaki
Place: Yoyogi Noh-gakudo , Tokyo
Change of Shirabyoshi time and Shirabyoshi’s dance and song.
Background of Shirabyoshi, and Gio, Senjunomae and Shizuka, what they sing and song to man of power.
Sunday, July 30th in 2023
place: Guest house Agano-juku & coffee restaurant; Saka ichi machi wake 213, Hano, Saitama
The week for traditional performing art “Shirabyoshi at summer ” Preparing for welcome song and dance, new piece, and cool song and dance.
August 24th,Performer: Makiko Sakurai (Shirabyoshi)
Place: Yoshiume Yoshicho tei ; Nihonbashi Ningyo-cho, Tokyo
Formal dinner of Samurai and Performance by Shirabyoshi
~Reproducing; Celebration table following fundamental low and recipe of Samurai in Kamakura time, and Senjuno mae and Shizuka who were performers as Shirabyoshi and succseeded in Kamakura~ Performers: Makiko Sakurai (Sihrabysohi), Denjuro Tanaka (Noh-kan, Shinobue), Sadatoshiro Mochizuki (Ookawa), Sacasuke Mochizuki(Do byoshi) Oct. 13th, 2023 Place: Hachinoki: Yamanouchi 350, Kamakura city, Kanagawa
Chnese song and Japanese song Performers : Makiko Sakurai(vocal), Yutaka Takahashi(guitar)
Nov.17th, 2023
place : Rakudo-an,Chiyodaku,Tokyo
Between Chinese and Heian literature and Chinese and Japanese song
Dialogue:Siu Chun ho, Makiko Sakurai
Perforers : Lu Jin Yang(erhu), Makiko Sakurai(vocal)
Dec.14th.
place : UNAC salon, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Memorial Service for GAZA
Prayers: Makiko Sakurai, Takahide Kobayashi, Masako Yoshida, Yukana Yamaguchi, Yoshikatsu Yamamoto, SIu chun ho
Dec. 17th, 2023
Place: Studio With The Heart, A studio;Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
HOPOE LIVE ♪ VOL.10
Performers: Hoppy Kamiyama, Zankyo, MORGE MOGRU, Makiko Sakurai, B.I.G. GAMELA, Guben, The Gov’nor Brothers, Yuji Okadai Hippi Marians
Dec. 23rd, 2023
Place: BLACK&BLUE, Musashino, Tokyo
Christmas live @TOHO CINEMA
Dec. 24 th 2023
Place: TOHO CINEMA, Kabukicho1-19-20, Shinjuku, Tokyo
Performers: Makiko Sakurai (Shirabyoshi and Shomyo), Akira Yoshimatsu (Noh dance),
Lua Takeshi (Psaltery)
Sunrise of New Year in 2024
6:51am Jan. 1 st , 2024
Place: Okutsuno- miya at Enoshima island Performers: Makiko Sakurai (Shirabyoshi and Shomyo), Akira Yoshimatsu (Noh), Wakan
Saotome(shaimisen)
Shirabyoshi and Gamelan” Elegy for my love” by Kakiomoto Hitomaro Sun. March, 10 th
Place: TCM hall at Meguro campus, Tokyo music college;
Players: Makiko Sakuirai (Shomyo, Shirabyoshi), Gameln group at Tokyo Music College:
Shungo Kato, Ryuichi Odani. Makoto Yokota, Miki Orita, Makiho Ikegami, etc.
”Bridegroom of Hanako” progress for stage Mon.March 11th
place: Book cafe 21century Kaitakush building 2F, Chiyoda, Tokyo
Guest: Makiko Sakurai (composer, author, Shirabyoshi and Shomyo player)
Lying second from the last Wed.March, 20th
Place: EARTHDOM; Risbon building B1F, Shinjuku, Tokyo
Artists: MAHIDAKU(Makiko Sakurai, HIKO, Darkrow), Ningen Sekken, Deficients,Risatipa,
Kazumoto Endo
Salon of Teison Shiobara “Shirabyoshi and Nagauta” Sun.March, 31st
Performers: Makiko Sakurai (Shirabyoshi), Teison Shiobara (Nagauta), Gojiro Sakamoto
(Shamisenn), Sadasuke Mochizuki (Tsuzumi dram), Atsuhiko Nakamura (commentator)
Place: Roppongi Doz Hall; Minato-ku, Tokyo
Special performance for Earth day “Poem and song to Gaza Palestine” 〜To
Second Nakbah〜 Mon.April 22nd
Performers
Poets: Miwa Ota, Genichi Takahoso, Somia Ramish, Kiyoe Kawazu, Setsuko MIyao,
Shoji Mishima, Yoshihiro Ito, Shindo Matsushita, Jun Kurokawa
Musicians: Makiko Sakurai (Shirabyoshi, Shomyo), Teison Shiobara (Nagauta), Akira
Yoshimatsu(Noh)
place: Hiakrino-uma, Shinjuku, Tokyo
Salon of Teison Shiobara “Shirabyoshi and Nagauta”
Sun.March 31st
Performers: Makiko Sakurai (Shirabyoshi), Teison Shiobara (Nagauta), Gojiro
Sakamoto
(Shamisenn), Sadasuke Mochizuki (Tsuzumi dram), Atsuhiko Nakamura
(commentator)
Place: Roppongi Doz Hall; Minato-ku, Tokyo
Tsukikageza〜Screening party of field performance〜
Mon.May 6th performers: Makiko Sakurai, Akira Yoshimatsu ,Takeshi Lua
place: Kanda Rakiudoan;Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Dedication at Amino shrine as Shirabyoshi
Sat.May 11th
Dedicators: Makiko Sakurai and 12 Shirabysohi students
place: Amino shrine; Kyotango-shi, Kyoto
The day of Nakbah
Tue.May 14th place: Sea side behind Morito shrine; Hayama-cho, Miura-gun, Kanagawa
Performers: Makiko Sakurai (shirabyoshi and shomyo), Akira Yoshimatsu ( Noh dance and sing),
Kenichi Takeda (Taisho-goto), HIKO (percussion)
Field Performance
Fri.May 17th
Performers: Makiko Sakurai (Shirabyoshi, Shomyo), Akira Yoshimatsu(Noh dance and sing), Lua
Takeshi(Kecapi), Nobunaga Ken (Percussion)
place: Take temple (Hanno, Saitama)
mitra-compassion-
Sun. 2nd, June place: Hatogaya forest limit, Tokyo
Artist: GENSHIN1130 ”Sparkling Sange”(Makiko Sakurai, Takahide Kobayashi, Masako
Yoshida)、TRASH(Shin Aiyoshi)
DJ:atri、DJ10RPM a.k.a. HAIZAI AUDIO、Suibo Nyannyan(+ Budhist)
Great Buddha created by Oniguruma
Praise Of Soul ~The night of waxing moon〜
Tue.June 4th guest: Makikoi Sakurai(Shirabyoshi and Shomyo), Akira Yoshimatsu
place: Kobo Musica;Arakawa-ku, Tokyo
Memorial service for Gaza 〜For 3,5,000 martyrs of Gaza conflict from 2023〜
Looking for calling up members for the name of 6,747 martyrs. Anyone and anytime, even short
time, we are welcome. Sun.July,7th Shomyo prayers: Makiko Sakurai, Takahide Kobayashi, Masako Yoshida,, Yukana Yamguchi, Siu
chonho
Performers: Genki Sakurai(Gregorian chant),Toshiaki Komori(piano), HIKO(drum), Kenichi
Takeda(electric Taisho-goto), Akira Yoshimatsu(Noh dance)
place:
Tale of Okinawa-Heike ~ Noh theatre for Dugong as endangered species in the sea〜 Mon. July, 15th original and script: Makiko Sakurai
performers: Makiko Sakurai (leading actor as fisherman and mother of dugong), Akira Yoshimatsu(
support actor as Tomomori crab and Antoku emperor), Taku Sato(Noritune crab), Takahide
Kobayashi(Ienaga crab), Makoto Kurachi(ukulele), Kotaro Ichikawa( lectuler for dugong by video)
directing: Toshimichi Aragaki(Okinawa Kumiodori sing), Shinji Kinjo (Okinawa kumiodori
choreography)
place:Shonan Enoshima Toramaruza; Fujisawa,
Kanagawa
“To future gig in Hiroshima” Tue.Aug, 6th
Hyper Noh “Trowing stone”. Makiko Sakurai(main role), Akira Yoshimatsu(supporting role), Akira
Sakata(sax), HIKO(drum)
performers: ORIGIN OF M, NEVER AGAINN
DJ: HARD, RODORIGUEZ
MC: goto izumi place:CONQUEST, Nakaku, HIroshima city
Week for traditional culture “New work of Shirabyoshi in 2024”
Wed.Aug. 14th
performer: Makiko Sakurai
place: Yshiume Yoshicho-tei; Chuoku, Tokyo
Imphal byToshiro Takagi
recitation, shomoy,shirabyoshi and shimai(noh dance)
Aug.15th performers: Makiko Sakurai ( script, shomyo and shirabyoshi), Ryo Kuzuhara (recitation), Akira Yoshimatsu (Shimai)
place: Kobp Musica (Tokyo)
#Astronomy and Music”communication between science and music Oct.25th Performers
Part 1; Maki Yoshimura (MC), Makiko Sakurai (Shirabyoshi and Ryuteki), Maki Yoshida (piano), Jun Tanaka (baritone), Yashunobu Matsuo (composer)
Part2; Satoshi Shimura (Shakuhachi), Hiroyo Uchida (piano), Noriko Toyota( soprano)
place:Don center(Osaka)
Japanese “Waka” and Chinese folksong
1st, Dec.
performers: Makiko Sakurai (vocal), Yutaka Takahashi (guitar)
place: Rakudo-an (Tokyo)
HOPE LINE vol.11
Dec.15th
place: STUJIO BAYD Jiyugaoka(Tokyo)
Performers: Makiko Sakurai, FOKKIES, Hippy Marians, Zankyo, Choko maie, MOGRE MOFRE, MurakamiLoki × Pankin, the inpro brothers, Honman Tuesday. etc.
Memorial services for Gaza
Dec.22nd
War of Israel-Palestine from Oct.,7th 2024, calling up 34,000 Palestinian martyrs. Currently recruiting for calling up.
Attendance: Makiko Sakurai, Takhide Kobayashi, Masako Yoshida, Yukana Yamaguchi, Fumika Oki, Yoshikatsu Yamamoto
Performers: Akira Yoshimatsu (Shimai dance), Kenichi Takeda(electric Taisho-goto)
place: Studio Onda Okubo(Tokyo)
Screen performance
Dec.28th
video record of performance by Makiko Sakurai, Akira Yoshimatsu and Lua Takeshi
place: Rakudoan Kanda(Tokyo)
Tokyo Impro Carnival vol.23
Sat.Jan.11th, 2025
performers: Makiko Sakurai(Shirabyoshi), Geino-Saekigumi, Oriba(drum, noise)
place: Hikarino Uma; Shinjuku, Tokyo
People descend here
Tue. death National Foundation Day, Feb. 11th, 2025.
Performers: Makiko Sakurai (Shirabysohi and Shomyo), HIKO (drum), Dakuro (moduler), Jenifer May May
(accordion)
place: Nanahari; Cyuo, Tokyo