Takeshi-san is impossible to beat!
先日はフィンランドからの小グループがお泊りになりました。皆さんは日本が大好きで、マイ浴衣も持っていました。
夕食のエンタテインメントの為に、３０分の芸者ショーを手配しました。三味線のベテランの春駒さんと最も上手な踊りの武さんが来てくれました。
お客様が音楽と踊りを見るだけと思い込んでいたが、
その訳に行きません。旬の唄そして地元を代表する［川中島合戦」の唄の後、今度はお客さんに踊りを教えて、三味線に合わせて皆で踊りました。その後、座敷遊びの金毘羅船船をやりました。武さんは経験深いなので、なかなか負けませんでした。最後はお客様が質問をし、私が間で通訳しました。
大盛り上がりの一時。戸倉上山田温泉って、良いね！
We had a small group of visitors from Finland come and stay at our inn. For their 2nd night's banquet, we arranged for a 30 minute geisha show. Shamisen veteran Harugoma-san and one of the most talented dancers, Takeshi-san came and delighted the guests.
The group from Finland apparently expected the show to simply be a passive affair of sitting back and watching some songs. They couldn't have been more mistaken. Harugoma-san and Takeshi-san did start out by performing two songs, the first a seasonal one and the second "Kawanakajima" about our area's famous samurai battle. But then they taught the guests how to do a dance, and everyone got up and joined in to move to the shamisen. After that, we played a geisha parlor game called Konpira Funefune. With all of her experience, Takeshi-san made for an unbeatable opponent. At the end, the guests asked questions to the geisha, with me serving as interpretor.
All in all, a great time for everyone. Isn't Togura-Kamiyamada Onsen great!
Watching the geisha dance performance.
