'Kodemari' - Oregon Koto-Kai

This performance was originally featured in our 2020 Virtual Fall Concert streamed on November 7th.
Temari is a toy which has existed since the Edo period. In the beginning, it was made by merely winding threads around a ball, but since around the end of the 16th century, beautiful threads were geometrically wound around the spherical body, which was more elastic using flowering fern in the core, which must make playing with them more enjoyable. ‘Kodemari’ is translated as a small sized Temari. Composer Katsuhiko Yoshizaki expresses the beauty of kodemari and the images of children having fun playing with it.
Special thanks to James Jordan for video editing.