Presenter: Ms. Aki Nagane
Date: November 11 ( Sunday), 2:00pm-4:00pm
Place: Takatsuki Shiritsu Shogai Gakushu Center
(10 minutes walk from JR Takatsuki station or Hankyu
Takatsukishi station), Tel: 072-674-7700
http://www.city.takatsuki.osaka.jp/bunka/manabi
Fee: 500yen for members and students, 1.000yen for non-members
Lnguage: Japanese
Description of the Presentation
Only one hundred years and some decades have passed since most of the residents in Hokkaido came to be predominantly made up of those who do not have faith in Ainu gods. Just dating back to four generations ago, there was a world where people prayed to their gods. It was not very far from the present. An Ainu fuchi, an old lady who was born in the Meji Era, introduced me to her (Ainu) world through Ainu stories. If you immerse yourself in the story telling, even if you can not understand the language, you might experience some of the cosmology behind the stories.”
（She will tell a story in Ainu language and play the Mukkuri instrument.）
Profile of the Presenter
Born and raised in Chitose, Hokkaido, she started to get involved with Ainu culture in 1993, the special year for International Indigenous People.
It was at this time that she attended an Ainu language course and encountered mukkuri, an Ainu musical instrument. Under the instruction of Phillpe Dalle, a famous mukkuri player living in Switzerland, she learned mukkukri and became the winner of the fourth Mukkuri competition in Hokkaido in 1999. Ms. Nagane published her first book about how to play mukkuri in 2000. Her first solo album titled “Monola” came out in 2001. She moved to Kyoto in 2004 to pursue other interests. Since then she has been active as both a mukkuri player and a coordinator of Ainu culture activities.
