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Ota’s Festival of Wa 2022 Special Program:“An Introduction to Kabuki”
An easy-to-understand introduction to all things Kabuki for children to adults!
Experience the world of Kabuki from various sides, including sword fighting, makeup, music,
and the performance of works.
Activity Kabuki tachimawari (sword fighting)

Demonstration

An instructor will give an explanationof the standard Kabuki movements.
Then participants will have a chance totry their hand at giving a performance
to Dontappo music, which typicallyaccompanies a sword-fighting scene.

One participant will experience putting
on kumadori makeup, one of the mostdistinctive types of Kabuki makeup,with easy-to-understand instructions.
Those in the audience will be able tosee the makeup being applied.

Put on kumadori makeup!

Performance 1 “Sannin Kichisa Tomoe no Shiranami: The Okawabata Koshinzuka scene”

Workshop

The music of Kabuki

A workshop will be held on the musicthat accompanies Kabuki. It will
include shamisen and singing that are
performed behind the actors as wellas explanations and performances ofinstruments by ohayashi musicians.

Performance 2“Gojobashi”

Please visit the Ota City Cultural Promotion Association’s website for more information.

Sword-fighting

When

Makeup demonstration

Where

1:30 pm on Saturday, March 19,2022 (doors open at 12:45 pm)

Large hall of Ota City
Residents Plaza
3-1-3 Shimo-Maruko, Ota-ku

Kabuki music

Capacity
Approx. 500

Gojobashi ukiyoe woodblock print

Cost
General: 2,500 yen
Jr. high school age and younger:
1,000 yen

How to apply
The program is open to purchasers of performance tickets. Tickets will go on sale at 10:00 am on Wednesday, January 12, 2022.
Requests to participate in the demonstrations and activities will be accepted at the venue (Ota City Residents Plaza) on the day of theperformance.
Where toapply

For tickets, call: ☎ 03-3750-1555

Inquiries☎ 03-3750-1611 FAX 03-3750-1150 E-mail bungeika@ota-bunka.or.jp

Ota City Cultural Promotion Association

Ota Children’s Japanese ClassThe Ota Children’s Japanese Class is a Japanese language class for children of foreign nationality who do not attend school.
EligibilityChildren who meet all of the following requirements (1) to (3).

(1) Child with non-Japanese nationality who resides in Ota City.
(2) School-age child who is not yet enrolled in school (born between April 2, 2006, and April 1, 2015) or child who is in a period thatbegins six months prior to enrollment in elementary school and ends with actual enrollment (born between April 2, 2015, andApril 1, 2016).
(3) Child who lacks Japanese skills and is not enrolled in an Ota City school.

Kamata
class

Omori
class

When

Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays
9:00 am to 12:00 pm

WhereInterpeople Community Center (mics Ota)Ota City Consumer Center, 5-13-26-101 Kamata, Ota-ku

Where to apply

Legato Ota☎ 03-6424-8822 FAX 03-5710-6330

How to apply

WhenMondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays
9:00 am to 12:00 pm

Cost

Where

International Exchange Facility, Sanno HallInternational Exchange Facility, 3-37-11 Sanno, Ota-ku

Where to apply

Inquiries

Cost

Nihongo-Gururitto☎ 03-5709-1347 FAX 03-5709-1347

How to apply

0 yen

Capacity

15 children

Apply in person at thecounter or by calling

0 yen

Capacity

10 children

Apply in person at thecounter or by calling

Global City Ota Cooperation Association (GOCA)☎ 03-6410-7981 FAX 03-6410-7982 E-mail mail@ota-goca.or.jp

Visit the Ota City Website for
Useful Information Prepared
Specifically for Foreigners!

The Ota City website
Access the site by clicking on the following icon appearing
on the home page.

The Ota City and GOCA websites provide information prepared to help
make life in Ota City easier for foreign residents. They include tips on
what to do in a disaster. Please take a look!
The Global City Ota Cooperation Association (GOCA)
websiteInternationalization and Multiculturalism Promotion
InquiriesDivision☎ 03-5744-1227 FAX 03-5744-1323
E-mail kokusai@city.ota.tokyo.jp

Ota City Has Launched a New Disaster Prevention
Portal Site and Disaster Prevention App.
The "Ota-ku Disaster Prevention Portal Site" and "Ota-ku
Disaster Prevention App" were launched in July 2021.
Both contain useful information concerning disasters
and how to prepare for them.
The portal site and app are available in English, Korean,and Chinese (both simplified and traditional characters)in addition to Japanese so that their content can beunderstood by people of many nationalities.
Ota City residents can use them to find weather
information, evacuation announcements, GIS map-based
evacuation center maps, various hazard maps, and otheruseful information in times of disaster.
The site and app also introduce key points forstockpiling necessities at home and preparing forevacuation to help residents be ready before disasterstrikes. Prepare for earthquakes, typhoons, and othernatural disasters now by familiarizing yourself with
Ota-ku Disaster Prevention Portal Site and Disaster
Prevention App.

Ota-ku Disaster Prevention Portal Site

The app can be downloaded using this 2D barcode.

AppStoreInquiries

GooglePlay

Disaster Preparation and Crisis Management Division☎ 03-5744-1236 FAX 03-5744-1519 E-mail bousai@city.ota.tokyo.jp

Regarding Inhabitant Tax Payments (Fourth Payment)
The fourth payment of the inhabitant tax (special city inhabitant tax and metropolitan inhabitant tax) is due on January 31.
Please be sure to make your payment by the due date. Mark your calendar so you don’t forget!

Inquiries

Tax Payment Division☎ 03-5744-1205 FAX 03-5744-1517 E-mail nouzei@city.ota.tokyo.jp

Multilingual Consultation Desk, Global City
Ota Cooperation Association (GOCA)Hours
2021 (until March 2022)
EnglishMon, Tue, Wed, Fri: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

ChineseMon, Tue, Thu, Fri: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

TagalogMon, Fri: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Nepali

Wed: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Vietnamese

Thu: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm[Services provided by the Multilingual Consultation Desk]● Consultation on daily life matters
The desk can provide consultation in various languages
regarding language difficulties, child-related concerns,marriage, divorce, work, and other concerns. (free of charge)● Translation
The desk will translate certificates and other documents thatyou will submit to Ota City Office. Please note that a fee (500yen per document) will be charged.
* GOCA’s Multilingual Consultation Desk will relocate in April
2022. The new location will be near Keikyu Kamata Station.
Please visit the GOCA website in March for details.

• Consultations in other languages are also available.
Please ask for details.
• Requests for consultation by telephone and e-mail are also
accepted.
• Consultation with a lawyer (reservation required):
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm on the first and third Sunday of each month

12ata

St.

To Omori

KamIf even one of the following applies to you, please contact
us by phone or e-mail first before coming in for yourconsultation.

East Exit

You or someone near you has tested positive for
COVID-19

Aroma PlazaYou have a fever of 37.5 degrees C or higher

Ota City Residents Hall(Aprico)
Ota City Office3
4

You have the symptoms of a cold (e.g., cough, runnynose, etc.)

Consumer center

Kanpachi

You are experiencing diarrhea or vomiting

Kamata-Higashi
Branch Office

Multilingual Consultation Desk, Global City Ota Cooperation Association (GOCA)Inquiries

1st floor, Consumer Center, 5-13-26 Kamata, Ota-ku☎ 03-6424-8822 FAX 03-5710-6330 Email info@ota-goca.or.jp

Published by the Ota city Internationalization and Multiculturalism Promotion Division
5-13-14 Kamata, Ota-ku 144-8621☎ 03-5744-1227 FAX 03-5744-1323

This newsletter is published eight times a year in six languages (simple Japanese, English, Chinese, Nepali, Tagalog, and Vietnamese).
It is distributed at Ota City facilities, such as libraries, children's centers, and branch offices, as well as at JR Kamata Station, Omori Station,Keikyu Kamata Station, and other major train stations in the city.