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KANNA OKUDA (Real name)
YUMIKO (Geisha name)
Spiritual Counselor
Spiritual Aroma Therapist
Japanese Traditional Dancer,
Choreographer, Kokyu Player,
Nagauta Shamisen Player,
Japanese-English Translator,
Interpreter, Geisha.
Graduated from Doshisha University, English Dept.
Graduated from Simul Academy Interpreting School.
Lived in the U.S. for more than 3 years.
She was a soloist conductor for choir, and an
organist at her christened church.
She was aspiring to become a opera singer.
Performing Arts
She have been dancing Japanese traditional dance
for more than 35 years.
As a part-time apprentice geisha (showing dance),
she performed more than several hundred times.
She became a teacher (Kansona Fujima is her
school name) of the dance since 2000.
She had been introducing Japanese traditional arts
in both Japanese and English.
She is a musician when her students dance, playing
shamisen and sing songs at the same time.
Her son hit drums at such occasions.
She became a shamisen player for apprentice
-geisha show and had many performances.
In 2007, she became a choreographer for TV
dramas and taught many actors and actresses.
In drama ‘Mito Kohmon,’ she choreographed and
taught dance for Kaoru Yumi, one of the famous
actresses in Japan.
She also choreographed for Toshiro Yanagiba in
New Year TV drama, ‘Mitsuhide Akechi,’ (Main
Cast was Toshiaki Karasawa).
She also was a dancer in Kyoto street in the same
drama.
She started choreographing dance for Miko (female
attendant in shrine) in ‘Negai-no-Miya,’ Osaka in
2008.
She danced Miko-mai for the last ritual of 2009 at
‘Negai-no-Miya.’
She has chosen her new dance name, Kanna
Fukada.
She choreographed and danced ‘Owara,’ and ‘
Genroku Hanami Odori,’ for her Kokyu
(Japanese traditional instrument) teacher Daisuke
Kiba’s concert in Sakai, Osaka.
She choreographed and danced for ‘Hiroshima
Nagasaki Day’ commemorating those who were
killed by bombs at Maui College, Hawaii, in Aug.8,
2010.
This is the film of the same dance at Iao Church,
Maui, danced in Aug. 10, 2010. > film
2017 Held the first geisha performance of dance,
music, and song at Yumoto Fujiya Hotel.
2019 Performed 'Kyoganoko Murume Dohjohji'
at Tokyo National Theater.> film
She was a leading shamisen player (who is the
conductor of the music) for one of geisha districts
in Kyoto, Kamishichiken, during the spring dance ‘
Kitano Odori’
of 2004. She was selected by her teacher as a
master shamisen player and played for 10 days of
the dance festival.
She later was granted the shamisen player name,
Katsuharuna Kineya.
She started Kokyu in 2007, and played Kokyu along
with her daughter playing Jushichigen at Hotel Nikko
Princess, Kyoto in 2009.
English
She scored TOEIC 955.
She helped translate ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ into
Japanese in terms of Kyoto dialect, Japanese
traditional performing arts, and culture.
Healing
She aspired to become a healer in order to help
many people. She had studied counseling, aroma
therapy, Martial arts (aiki-do), Shintoism, and
launched 'Therapy Salon Shunkoran' in Kyoto in
2007.
The name of the Salon was changed to 'Therapy
Salon Ai's' in 2010.
She gives counseling sessions both in Kanto and
Kansai Area.
She answers in English in both mail and telephone
counseling.
She also gives seminars on the theme of 'happiness'
and 'abundance.'
She has been an adviser for a spiritual information
site, "My Spi (My Spiritual)," produced by Mediagene
Co., Ltd. since 2011. She had given many advices
and also appeared on web TV program. She had
ranked top among the advicers for more than
a year.
Accessory
From 2009, she started making genuine stone
jewelry and make a sale them through website.
Hand-made accessories by Kanna praying for
customer’s good fortune and happiness, always
receive orders.
Her hand made cell-phone straps,bracelets, and
necklaces are popular among people regardless of
sex and age.
Geisha
Having passion for shamisen and traditional dance,
she made her debut as Yumiko, Hakone Yumoto
geisha in October, 2011. She passed the test as
a musician called ‘jikata’in November.
She started playing kokyu every night for her clients
since 2012.
She will be dancing for Hakone Odori (Hakone
Dance) and also will be playing shamisen at Nagauta
and Hauta performances.
She played kokyu for two days at ‘Only You,’
a hot spring facility at Minami Ashigara, Kanagawa
Pref. in May, 2013.
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