Bibicos in Wakamiya open space (male cosplayer)
Bibicos in Wakamiya Square-The event called Bibicos is conducted once a month in the Tokai area. Cosplay events held at "Garden Wharf", "Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Garden", "Okazaki Castle" and "Nabana no Sato". Following the opening of Wakamiya Square on February 2, 2019, March will also be held at Wakamiya Square!
Outline of the event
Date: Saturday, March 30, 2019.
Time: 10:00 Reception start: 16:30 shooting end / 17: 00 Changing rooms closed
Venue: Wakamiya open space (3-10, Osu, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture)
There are two ways to enjoy Bibicos this time. The two are "Photographing" and "Cosplay Performance". This “cosplay performance” is now attracting attention! There is no doubt that 2019 will be!
Cosplay performance
In fact, the culture of cosplay is also diversifying. Among them, "Cosplay Performance" has recently started to be popular among cosplayers. Reading and doing "cosplay" and doing "performance" like a letter, but this is quite interesting! As far as I see, cosplay performance is roughly divided into two patterns.
And another pattern is the theater system. This pattern is also shown at the final round of the World Cosplay Summit. "Cosplay and play the original one scene", of course, the quality of the cosplay is required and various techniques such as "individual acting ability" and "script composition" are required, but the completed "work" is The masterpiece!
In Bibicos, it is difficult to perform a large-scale work as much as the World Cosplay Summit, but you can still see the finest works filled with the love of the cosplayers.
Of course, it is Bibicos' main plan to enjoy with "photograph photography" as usual! There are 4 places that can be photographed: "Wakamiya Square, Yaba Bridge, Hisaya Odori Garden Halirie, Miwa Shrine". In particular, “Kuya Odori Garden Farriage” is a recommended spot where seasonal flowers are lined up and you can shoot situations like medieval Europe!
Participation fee
Advance ticket
cosplayers / 1,500 yen (including locker room, cloakroom use fee)
cameraman / 1,000 yen
On the day ticket
cosplayers / 2,300 yen (including locker room, cloakroom use fee)
cameraman / 1,800 yen
Free for those who do neither cosplay nor shoot
Bibicos, where you can experience the culture of Subcar in Aichi Prefecture, is a highly recommended event! It's free if you just look, so let's visit Wakamiya Square on Saturday, March 30, 2019! !
Name of performance: Bibicos in Wakamiya open space [photographer] participation exchange ticket
Venue: Wakamiya open space
Open: 2019/04/27 (Sat) 12:00
Notes:
This is a "Photographer's Ticket" to be attended at Bibicos in Wakamiya Square.
Please be sure to present it at the cameraman's reception desk and exchange it with the participation certificate wristband.
The reference number is for understanding the number of participants, and it has nothing to do with the reception and changing room entry order.
Please do not contact directly the facilities that will be the venue.
Please contact the Bibicos Executive Committee for inquiries.
Limited number of tickets: You can book up to 8 tickets in a single application. Application limit 4 times
Type of seats and fees:
Voucher: ¥ 1,000
Payment methods:You can pay at this reception
Credit card: It will be settled when the application is completed.
Convenience store / ATM: Please pay by the time of display of application.
Family mart
Seven-Eleven
Lawson Ministop
Page compatible ATM
Delivery 【Delivery service】: We will deliver in about a week after payment is completed.
FamilyMart: Please receive at the in-store Fami port terminal after 20/19/27 (Saturday).
Seven-Eleven: Please receive at the cash register after 20/19/04 (Sat).
Cosplay (コスプレ kosupure), is a performance art in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character. Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture, and a broader use of the term "cosplay" applies to any costumed role-playing in venues apart from the stage. Any entity that lends itself to dramatic interpretation may be taken up as a subject and it is not unusual to see genders switched. Favorite sources include anime, cartoons, comic books, manga, live-action films, television series, and video games.
The rapid growth in the number of people cosplaying as a hobby since 1990s has made the phenomenon a significant aspect of popular culture in Japan and some other parts of Asia and in the Western world. Cosplay events are common features of fan conventions and there are also dedicated conventions and local and international competitions, as well as social networks, websites and other forms of media centered on cosplay activities.
The term "cosplay" was coined in Japan in 1984. It was inspired by and grew out of the practice of fan costuming at science fiction conventions, beginning with Morojo's "futuristicostumes" created for the 1st World Science Fiction Convention in New York City in 1939.
The term "cosplay" is a Japanese portmanteau of the English terms costume and play.The term was coined by Nobuyuki Takahashi of Studio Hard after he attended the 1984 World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) in Los Angeles[3] and saw costumed fans, which he later wrote about in an article for the Japanese magazine My Anime. Takahashi chose to coin a new word rather than use the existing translation of the English term "masquerade" because that translates into Japanese as "an aristocratic costume", which did not match his experience of the WorldCon. The coinage reflects a common Japanese method of abbreviation in which the first two moras of a pair of words are used to form an independent compound: 'costume' becomes kosu (コス) and 'play' becomes pure (プレ).
In 1984, Nobuyuki Takahashi, founder of Studio Hard, attended the 42nd Worldcon in Los Angeles. He was impressed with the masquerade and reported on it in My Anime, coining the term kosupure (from which cosplay is derived) in the process. His report also encouraged Japanese fans to include more costuming in their own conventions. The initial report also used the terms "costume play" (コスチュームプレイ kosuchuumu purei) and the English "Hero Costume Operation" but kosupure was the term that caught on.
As stated above, costuming had been a fan activity in Japan from the 1970s, and it became much more popular in the wake of Takahashi's report. The new term did not catch on immediately, however. It was a year or two after the article was published before it was in common use among fans at conventions. It was in the 1990s, after exposure on television and in magazines, that the term and practice of cosplaying became common knowledge in Japan.
The first cosplay cafés appeared in the Akihabara area of Tokyo in the late 1990s.[3][39] A temporary maid café was set up at the Tokyo Character Collection event in August 1998 to promote the video game Welcome to Pia Carrot 2 (1997). An occasional Pia Carrot Restaurant was held at the shop Gamers in Akihabara in the years up to 2000. Being linked to specific intellectual properties limited the lifespan of these cafés, which was solved by using generic maids, leading to the first permanent establishment, Cure Maid Café, which opened in March 2001.
The first World Cosplay Summit was held on October 12, 2003 at the Rose Court Hotel in Nagoya, Japan, with five cosplayers invited from Germany, France and Italy. There was no contest until 2005, when the World Cosplay Championship began. The first winners were the Italian team of Giorgia Vecchini, Francesca Dani and Emilia Fata Livia.
Worldcon masquerade attendance peaked in the 1980s and started to fall thereafter. This trend was reversed when the concept of cosplay was re-imported from Japan.
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Wakamiya Ōji (若宮大路) is a 1.8 km street in Kamakura, a city in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan, unusual because it is at the same time the city's main avenue and the approach (sandō (参道)) of its largest Shinto shrine, Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū. Over the centuries Wakamiya Ōji has gone thorough an extreme change. A heavily trafficked road today, it used to be, to the contrary, off limits to most people as a sacred space. At the time of the Kamakura shogunate it was an essential part of the city's religious life, and as such it hosted many ceremonies and was rich with symbolism. Since its construction Wakamiya Ōji has been the backbone of the city's street planning and the center of its cultural life. The street has been declared a Historic Site and was chosen as one of the best 100 streets in Japan.
Like most of Kamakura's famous things, Wakamiya Ōji was built at the time of the Kamakura shogunate. Its builder, first Kamakura shōgun Minamoto no Yoritomo, wanted to imitate Kyoto's Suzaku Ōji (朱雀大路). The name Wakamiya Ōji means "Young Prince Avenue" and derives from its having been built in 1182 as a prayer for the safe delivery of Yoritomo's first son, future shōgun Yoriie. That name appears also in the Azuma Kagami, but from historical records it seems likely that the avenue at the time was more often called Wakamiya Kōji (若宮小路). In fact, all other Kamakura streets called Ōji by the Azuma Kagami, for example Ōmachi Ōji and Komachi Ōji, are also called Kōji in other medieval texts. During the Muromachi period Wakamiya Ōji was called with a number of different names by different sources, including Nanadō Kōji (七度小路), for example in Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū's official records, Nanadō Kōrō (行路) in the Kaigen Sōzuki (快元僧都記), and Sendō Kōji (千度小路) or Sendōdan (千度壇) in a poetry collection called Baika Mujinzō (梅花無尽蔵). The word Nanadō ("seven times") refers to the number of times the shōgun's representative for the Kantō region (the "Kantō kubō") would walk around the torii gate called "Hama no Torii" (see below) in a ceremony part of a whole week of religious celebrations. Analogously, the term Sendō ("a thousand times") refers to the custom of praying a thousand times while on this sacred avenue.
Recent excavations have revealed that Wakamiya Ōji was originally 33 m wide (much more than now), was flanked by pine trees (now present only next to Ichi no Torii, see below), and on its sides run a 1.5 m ditch. Next to its upper course, on the two sides there were empty spaces where the remains of a market have been found. Being a shrine's approach, the avenue passes under three torii, or Shinto gates, called respectively Ichi no Torii (first gate), Ni no Torii (second gate) and San no Torii (third gate). The ordinal number decreases with the distance from the shrine, so the closest to Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū is actually San no Torii. All were destroyed and rebuilt many times. Today's San no Torii and Ni no Torii were built in reinforced concrete in 1934 and are painted bright red, the remaining one is made of stone and was erected by Tokugawa Ietsuna in the 17th century. We know from the Shinpen Kamakurashi that until the Edo period the gate closest to the shrine was called Ichi no Torii, the middle one Ni no Torii and the one closest to the sea Hama no Ōtorii ("Great Beach Torii") (see the section Hama no Ōtori below). This was by far the holiest of the three, a symbolic link between the city and the sea from which it depended.
Wakamiya Ōji itself was a sacred and ceremonial road which led to a sacred beach, and was used only for the shōgun's pilgrimages to the shrines in Izu and Hakone (see also the section Yuigahama), and during official visits of important dignitaries. In May 1185 Taira no Munemori, captured after the decisive Minamoto victory at the battle of Dan-no-ura, entered Kamakura with his son through Wakamiya Ōji.[1] Normal people were rarely allowed on it, but the Azuma Kagami records that on this occasion it was lined with onlookers.
Parade on Wakamiya Ōji during the Kamakura Matsuri. The dankazura is visible in the background
The Azuma Kagami tells us that, on its east side, in Komachi, there were the houses of the powerful and, for almost the entire Kamakura period, the seat of the government (called Utsunomiya Bakufu, first, and Wakamiya Ōji Bakufu later). The entrance of all buildings not belonging to the Hōjō or the Bakufu (with the curious exception of houses of ill repute) had to face away from Wakamiya Ōji (today's Hongaku-ji is a good example). Like today, the social class of those living to the west of the avenue was in general lower.The reason seems to be that, because six of the Kamakura's Seven Entrances faced west and any attack was in any case likely to come from Kyoto, which lies in the same direction, Wakamiya Ōji had a military value as a line of defense, and positions on its east side were desirable.
Further south social status dropped even further, because near Geba (see below) there were the pleasure quarters.
Fashion show