PROJECTS
The best marketing is making culture. These projects welcome audiences not as consumers but as participants and storytellers who carry kabuki into the future. Concepts still awaiting approval are clearly marked as visions.
ABMORI — FOREST & ART
Handing on forests and art alike.
A project of planting trees and raising forests. Working for a landscape decades away and inheriting an art that has lasted centuries share the same sense of time.
On 20 September 2026, 'ABMORI in Kisomachi' is planned in Kiso, Nagano. See the official announcement for details.
ONE EMOTION. ONE POSE. ONE STORY.
In seven seconds, emotion crosses borders.
One video, one emotion, seven seconds. No lines, no explanation — just a single English word. The word appears in the first second, the body speaks until the fifth, and a mie pose lands at the seventh. A short-video series translating universal emotions through the kabuki body.
Planned for TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts, with every clip linking back to D-13's term and play pages — a seven-second doorway into deeper understanding.
ONE EMOTION. ONE POSE. ONE STORY.7 SEC
WORLD TRADITIONS IN DIALOGUE
Traditions meeting traditions, anew.
A vision of exchange between kabuki and traditional performing arts around the world — trading forms and philosophies, so that kabuki stands among the world's living languages of performance.
This project is at the concept stage. Timing and content are not yet confirmed.
FUTURE BON ODORI
From watching to dancing together.
A vision of opening kabuki's body and music into a festival anyone can join: growing a community and content online through 2026–27, moving toward real bon-odori festivals around 2028, and to the world around 2030 — a future D-13 is working toward.
Not a confirmed event. The whole roadmap, including years, is a concept awaiting formal approval.
KATARIBE — STORYTELLERS
Fans not as consumers, but as carriers of culture.
Those who watch begin to tell; those who tell bring someone new to the theatre. A participatory programme supporting 'storytellers' who share their experience and grow the next audience — because the best marketing is making culture itself.
At the concept stage. Content and timing are undecided.
Sep 4, 2025
How he intends to build kabuki's future, discussed with his collaborators — you can feel the temperature of the plans.
