Frequently Asked Questions

Thank you very much. We apologize for the inconvenience, but please send us an email with the date, time, location, and content of the event, as well as your ご予算などをメールでinfo@brigadejapan.comまでご連絡いただけますでしょうか. We will check the details and contact you by email. Please note that we may have to turn down your request due to scheduling conflicts or for the following reasons.


Reasons for refusal
– Performances at night at drinking or banquet events
– Performances at political organizations or related locations
– If there are concerns about the safety of the biwa or the performer

We apologize for the inconvenience, but please direct any inquiries regarding the schedule, etc. to the event management office. We are unable to provide personal contact information for MORINORI. Please understand that we will not be able to answer any questions you may have at the venue.


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I’m sorry, but please wait a while as we will contact you as soon as we have checked the details. If you contact us on weekends, public holidays or performance days, it will take longer than usual for us to reply. Please understand that we may not be able to reply depending on the content.

A receipt will be issued by e-mail upon completion of your application (upon completion of credit card payment). Please confirm that the management of BRIGADE Co. If payment is made at the venue, a receipt will be given at the venue.

Yes, the registration number is T9021001074667 (BRIGADE Corporation).

We are very sorry, but we cannot provide explanations in English. We can exchange e-mails using a translation tool, but we are unable to have a conversation. We have received many requests for this service, and we will gradually improve the environment, but for the time being, we ask for your understanding that explanations and applications will only be provided in Japanese.

Thank you for your consideration. We are not able to offer tours in multiple languages, including English, at this time, but if you have a tour assistant, we may be able to accommodate you. We apologize for the inconvenience, but please let us know your itinerary, number of people, and budget.

There are various ways of thinking and understanding Heikyoku, depending on the performer or researcher. Please allow us to answer with the understanding that MORINORI thinks this way. MORINORI defines Heikyoku as “telling the Tale of the Heike to the accompaniment of the Heike biwa”, and uses the Heike Mabushi score. Heikyoku is a traditional Japanese narrative form of storytelling, and is a musical expression based on the classic literary work “Tale of the Heike”. It expresses the scenes of the story by telling various passages with the biwa and voice. Even today, various performers and researchers are working on it, so I hope you will listen to Heikyoku performed by a variety of people.

The Heikyoku used by MORINORI are Heike Seiboku, a collection of Heike Monogatari songs compiled during the Edo period, and there are around 200 songs in total. If we have misunderstood, we apologize, but it seems that the Gion Shoja, Nasunoyoichi and Atsumori that you hear on the Satsuma biwa and Chikuzen biwa are not Heike Seibun, but rather pieces from the Heike Monogatari that have been set to music on each biwa (some people play parts of Heike Seibun). Compared to the simple tunes of the Heike biwa, the Satsuma biwa and Chikuzen biwa are more ornate and beautifully color the story in a memorable way. I hope you will listen to other Heike monogatari performances on the biwa.

I’m very sorry, but I can’t do it because I haven’t yet studied Gion Shoja. There are 161 Heikyoku, 28 Denju, and 10 Hikyoku, and Gion Shoja is one of the Hikyoku. It is given after completing all the Heikyoku and Denju, and I don’t even know if I will be able to receive it. Although it is not Heikyoku, you can find Gion Shoja being performed by various performers on the Satsuma Biwa and Chikuzen Biwa on YouTube, so I hope you will listen to it there. They are all wonderful. MORINORI is also working hard so that he can learn it someday.

I’m very sorry, but MORINORI does not teach Heikyoku narration or Heike biwa. Please accept my apologies.

Those labeled as lectures are for participants to recite the Tale of the Heike and then listen to the Heikyoku. This is not a course to learn Heike biwa or storytelling. Please understand that this is not a course to learn Heike biwa or storytelling.

Please click on the page you wish to apply from the “Courses/Concerts” page, and then click the “Click here to apply” button at the top of the page. You will be redirected to the event page, so please fill out the necessary information by clicking the “Apply” button on the page.

We are now accepting applications for more than one person. Please note that payment must be made by credit card by the representative person.

We are sorry, but please apply from the application page that will be transferred from each course/concert page.

Yes, it is possible. Please contact us at least one day prior to the event date and time by clicking on the link on the event page attached to the e-mail, or by us.

We are very sorry, but we will not accept applications from those who have cancelled many times in the past or those who are found to be disruptive to participants, the venue, or the performers. Thank you for your understanding.

For those with pre-payment attached to the event page, payment will be made at the time of registration. For those with payment on the day of the event, please pay at the venue on the day of the event.

To avoid confusion on the day of the event, payment is to be made by credit card at the time of application. For meetings that accept cash payment on the day of the event, we will inform you separately.