TERA in Kyoto

Directed by Yukari Sakata
Performer: Miho Inatsugu
Music: Kyojun Tanaka
Dramaturge: Maho Watanabe

Costumes: Kyoko Fujitani (FAIFAI)
Costumes Cooperation: Phablic×Kazui
Production Coordinator: Aki Miyatake
Photography: Keita Kitagawa
Video Documentation: ON-EI (Mika Sasaki, Yuya Shito, Misaki Kuroi)
English Translation: John Townsend
Subtitling: Sakura Sawashima

Planned and presented by UPN, Ltd.
Special cooperation from Rinzai-shū Kōshō-ji
In cooperation with Kyoto Art Center Artists-in-Studios Program
Concept: TERASIA

Inspired by:
“Daffodils and Wooden Fish: A Verse Drama” (1957) by Jūrō Miyoshi
“Kangaroo Notebook” (1991) by Kōbō Abe
“[Morning Sermons] Ep.6 Crossing the Ocean - Aboard Hamakaze” (2020) from “The Power of Zazen: Oshō’s Chillaxing Practice TV” on Rinzai-shū Kōshō-ji Official YouTube Channel

Quotations from:
“monks” by Minoru Yoshioka (1958) - Translation by Hiroaki Sato in “Lilac Garden: Poems of Minoru Yoshioka” (Chicago Review Press, 1976)
“Gyaku-on-jin-shū” in The Kōshō-ji Sutra Book
“The Story’s Next Day” (1961) by Taeko Tomioka

Reference:
“What You Don’t Know About Eisai and the Rinzai School” (2014) Editorial Supervision by Tetsuo Yamaori