In February 2012, Shibuya Channel covered Japanese dancer Naomichi Hanazono (花園直道) at T’s Galaxy Shibuya for his new-direction live 邪派新姿（ジャパニーズ） — classical dance pushed into entertainment that mixed Tsugaru shamisen, rock, comedy talk, and stage combat.
Hanazono had already cut a CD that year and collaborated with artists including Yoichi Hayashi, Miyuki Kawanaka, and Shigeki Mashima. The write-up called him the dancer singers most wanted to share a bill with — equal parts precision dance, shamisen, and showmanship.
Who filled the room
The audience stretched from school-age kids to fans in their seventies. Opening calls of “Naomichi-sama” set the tone before the stage answered with sharp movement, theatrical sword work, fan choreography, and a singing voice that stayed lyrical under the volume.
Kabuto and the guest set
Entertainment troupe 華舞斗～KABUTO～ backed the show — women moving like scattered petals, men stacking acrobatics. The report noted their appearance in the Ippei-chan night-stall yakisoba “mayo beam” TV spot alongside Junpei Mizobata.
Guest R&B singer Issei “Shark” Endo (円道シャーク一成), known from Yunkeru commercials, brought a special band for rock/blues/R&B fused with Japanese instrumentation. Voice percussion billed as an “eco drum,” shamisen-into-rock passages, and everyday-life blues sessions kept the two hours moving. Encore 魂七変化 pulled the room into a sing-along.
What “Japaneese” meant on that bill
The closing line framed the project as deliberately heretical for classical dance — flashy, hybrid, borderless — aiming at performance that still lands in the chest. Contemporary schedule links pointed to naomichi.net.
The same Shibuya live-house belt still feeds the scramble basin you can watch on the Shibuya Crossing live camera. Ticket and transit math for a Tokyo trip stack up in our average trip to Japan cost guide.
