"Words" engraved on the Taga Castle monument that revealed the foundation of Taga Castle. And it is also "words" to write in "Oku no Hosomichi" that Matsuo Basho faced the Tagajo monument and felt tears. Now that 1300 years have passed since ancient times, a language art project that illuminates the light of "words" and spins the power of "words" into the future of a thousand years ahead. It will be held.

Visit the history and tourism resources and restaurants in the Matsushima Bay Area (Shiogama City, Higashimatsushima City, Matsushima Town, Shichigahama Town, Rifu Town), which is related to Taga Castle since the foundation of Taga Castle, and rediscover the local charm of everyday life Bicycle activity. You can use the smartphone app to collect points in various places and exchange them for delicious gourmets and sweets to enjoy local products. There is also a special action where you can get additional points and a chance to get luxurious prizes, so you can enjoy not only rediscovering the hidden charm of Tagajo and Matsushima Bay Area, but also interacting with participating stores. Why don't you enjoy Taga Castle and Matsushima Bay by bicycle?

3 million iris sanguinea, rabbit ear iris and Japanese iris of 800 species are in full bloom in the Iris Garden of about 21,000 square meters, one corner of the special historic site, Tagajo Ruins. During the period, festival bazaars and hands-on corners will be held, and on Saturdays and Sunday, stage events and fields will be held.

stamp rally will also be held during the period to commemorate the 1300th anniversary of Tagajo Castle.

The 800 species, 3 million iris sanguinea, Japanese iris, rabbit ear iris and Tagajo monuments, are in full bloom at the Iris Garden, the ruins of Tagajo Castle, will be created with faint light to create a creative recovery from Great East Japan Earthquake and hope for the future. Under the blue sky, you can enjoy the fantastic atmosphere of Iris, which is a bit different from the Iris in the Iris Garden, the ruins of Tagajo in a corner of a special historic site. Please come along with the Tagajo Ruins Iris Festival, a feature of early summer, held at the same time.

wadaiko celebrates the 1300th anniversary of the founding of Tagajo with people from all over the Tohoku region by expressing the "Rhythm of Life" in the Tohoku region, which has been spun in the Eternal History for 1300 years.

Traditional performing arts rooted in various parts of Tohoku will gather at the site of Tagajo, and will perform with the wadaiko player Atoa, based in Miyagi.

The "Road of Light" Art Project, which visualizes the remnants of Tagajo, an ancient city in Tohoku with light art. In addition to recreating the ruins of the government office in ancient Taga Castle, the government office Minamioji and the north-southoji with light, the power of art together with many citizens creates a `` path of light '' that will be a road light for the future millennium ahead. I will create it.

"Words" engraved on the Taga Castle monument that revealed the foundation of Taga Castle. And it is also "words" to write in "Oku no Hosomichi" that Matsuo Basho faced the Tagajo monument and felt tears. Now that 1300 years have passed since ancient times, a language art project that illuminates the light of "words" and spins the power of "words" into the future of a thousand years ahead. It will be held.

To this day, Tagajo and Nara have walked together in an era where Japanese culture that has been spun and spun has blossomed. At that time, the Tagajo Cinema Complex with Nara International Film Festival, which began in Nara in 2010, touched on the arts and culture of the Nara International Film Festival in Tagajo, just as the various cultures of the capital were transmitted to Tagajo. If it is an NPO corporation, with the cooperation of the International Film Festival, films centered on the works of NARAtive, a film production project of the corporation, will be screened at several locations in the city.

It has been 1300 years since Tagajo, Mutsu Kokufu, was founded, the center of ancient Tohoku.

This is an exhibition that traces what role Taga Castle played and developed in this area, in relation to the trends of ancient capital and Tohoku, and the people involved in Taga Castle.

This is a unique opportunity to meet 20 national treasures and about 300 important cultural properties, including the newly designated Important Cultural Property "Taga Castle Ruins artifact in Miyagi Prefecture" this year.

※For more information, please visit the Tohoku History Museum official website.

A commemorative ceremony that plays an important role in the formation of an ancient nation and celebrates the 1300th anniversary of the founding of Tagajo, which can be said to be the beginning of Miyagi and Tohoku.

The ceremony will include an artistic program that reproduces ancient events and rituals, fuses immutable value with the changing new value, and expresses the occurrence of Tagajo in Mutsu Kokufu through the "natural world of color and sound". . We will send out the thoughts and messages that we will spin into the future of a thousand years from now.

◎General Director / Keiichi Shigano
◎Music Director / Toshihiko Urahisa
◎Art Director / Masahiro Nakagawa
◎Stage Director / Masatoshi Muto
◎Choreography: Masahiro Nakagawa, Takeshi Ishii (ALCHEMIST)
◎Costume: Masahiro Nakagawa, Takeshi Ishii (ALCHEMIST)
◎Hair makeup / Amakawaya Seika

The theme is "History teaches the future" and "Living together".

History does not exist in a fragmentary manner, but is connected to any time of the past and is now connected to the future. It was 1300 years since the foundation of Taga Castle. A new era creative opera that spells the “memory” engraved on this land with symphony, images and songs.

We will perform jointly with professional amateurs with citizen participation.

The themes are "Loss and Regeneration", "The joy of living", "Future full of diverse", and "Hope".

Set in the ancient Tohoku region where Taga Castle in Mutsu Kokufu was founded, William Shakespeare's "Winter Story" will be adapted and performed as "Michinoku no Kuni Winter Story". With the participation of citizens, the people who live in the affected areas of Great East Japan Earthquake feel the joy of living and create something that will serve as the basis for living in the future.