"Kagura" Held in the Grove of Akagi Shrine: Meido's "Agate" Tour Presents "Akagi Yoru Kagura" on May 16th

Musician Meido will hold a commemorative performance for their latest work "Agate", titled "Akagi Yoru Kagura," on May 16th at Miyosawa Akagi Shrine in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture. The event aims to offer an experience that touches upon forgotten senses by resonating with the sacred space. The performance is organized by SOWA DELIGHT, an electrical construction company based in Maebashi.
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On May 16th, the performance "Akagi Yoru Kagura" by musician Meido will be held at Miyosawa Akagi Shrine in Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture. This performance is part of the tour commemorating the release of their latest work, "Agate." Starting with a prayer in front of the main hall, the performance transitions into music as the sun sets. It is an attempt to reawaken the sense of time that flowed within the space of a shrine. Gratitude and prayer towards nature and existence beyond our control – these senses, once an extension of daily life, may now be gradually fading. This performance will be an opportunity to quietly touch upon that memory. The organizer is SOWA DELIGHT, an electrical construction company based in Maebashi. This one night will unfold within the context cultivated through a long-standing relationship with the location of Akagi.

Sound Resonating with the Sacred Forest

Meido has quietly deepened their relationship with this land through performances at the Maebashi cultural asset, Rinkokaku (2024), and at Lake Onuma on Mt. Akagi (2025). Following the experience last year where their sound melted into the landscape by the lake, the stage this time is the sacred area within the precincts of Miyosawa Akagi Shrine – the guardian forest that encompasses approximately 2000 years of time.

This performance is not about presenting a pre-constructed production. As Meido themselves says, "I don't know what will happen," the core of the experience is the time itself that emerges by surrendering to the place and resonating with it.

Remembering the Shrine as a Place

What is being questioned in this performance is not simply "performing at a shrine."

As the concept of "Yaoyorozu no Kami" (eight million deities) suggests, Japan once held a sense of gratitude and awe towards nature such as water and wind, and existences beyond human power. Shrines were also places to confront such existences and reconfirm those relationships.

However, in modern times, the meaning of existences like shrines, Kagura, and torii gates is gradually fading. Originally, this was not a special ritual, but a sense that was an extension of daily life, like saying "Itadakimasu" (I will receive). Kagura is an act to welcome the gods and open the boundary between humans and gods. The Kaguraden, established for this purpose, was not merely a stage, but a place where unseen existences and humans intersect.

In this performance, it begins with a prayer in front of the main hall and transitions into a performance as the sun sets. This entire flow has a structure that brings back the way Kagura used to be into the present day.

Rather than a live performance, it is a time opened for touching upon forgotten senses through sound, by immersing oneself in the space.

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