1. ACT 1 – CREATION OF JAPAN
AME: IZANAGI, IZANAMI.
IZANAMI & IZAMAGI: Y-Y-Yes?
AME: IS THIS HOW YOU ADDRESS YOUR GODS (THUNDER STARTS BLARING). IS
THIS HOW YOU ADDRESS YOUR “HEAVENLYANCESTRAL GOD OF THE
ORIGINATINGHEART OF THE UNIVERSE”? (say this part at a fast paced)
IZANAGI: No great Kami no, we ask for your forgiveness.
AME: GOOD,KUNITOKOTACHI ANDAND I,AMENOMINAKANUSHIHAVE CHARGE
BOTH OF YOU IN CREATINGTHE FIRST LANDS. YOU WILL GO TO THE FLOATING
BRIDGE OF HEAVEN AND HERE IS THE HEAVENLY SPEAR (AME-NONUBOKO) TO
HELP YOU WITH YOUR TASK. (A heavenly spear falls from the sky and it would be really
cool if Izanagi can catch it)
IZANAGI: Let’s go then
[IZANAMI and IZANAGI head to the bridge]
IZANAGI: What do we do with this? (waves it around)
[some sort of mist starts forming: we could use water spray bottles/dry ice shit]
IZANAMI:Look! Something’s happening! Wave it at the sea.
[The sea moves a little (probably some sort of paper or cloth to represent it)]
IZANAGI: Let’s build ourselves some motherfucking islands.
[Some awesome music starts blaring and islands form]
ACT 1
SCENE1
IZANAGI: I have something to ask you.
IZANAMI:What is it?
IZANAGI: Uhmmmmmmm
IZANAMI:Mhmmmmmmm?
IZANAGI: Uhmmmmmmmm

2. IZANAMI:Mhmmmmmmm
IZANAGI: Mhmmmmmmm
IZANAMI:OK WHAT.]
IZANAGI: “Do you... Do you..want to lie in the same grave with me?”
[probably some slide showing that Japanese people do proposals in the most indirect ways]
IZANAMI: Are you asking what I think you’re asking?
IZANAGI: I think you’re asking what you think I’m asking
IZANAMI: So are you thinking what I’m thinking Izanagi?
IZANAGI: I think I am, Izanami, It’s marriage time!
[IZANAMI & IZANAGI scurry off]
[LIGHTS OFF]
SCENE 2
[LIGHTS ON]
[They put the last touch to the pillar]
IZANAGI: Let’s do this, we’ll circle the pillar in opposite directions and when we meet on the
other side, we’ll be.. you know lahh.
IZANAMI:...
[IZANAMI AND IZANAGI IN SLOW-MO CIRCLE AROUND THE PILLAR AND THEN
SOME DRAMATIC ROMANTIC MUSIC PLAYS ANDSTOPS WHEN IZANAMI]
IZANAMI:Konichiwa Goshujin, ah, I like the sound of that.
IZANAGI: I was supposed to greet first, but nevermind Konichiwa Okusan.
[They head to this screen and yeah mate and stuff and slide shows, when time passes by, when
IZANAMI SCREAMS from childbirth and Izanagi sees all these devil children]
IZANAGI: WHAT ARE THESE.. THESE DEVILS?
IZANAMI [wailing]: I don’t know I don’t know.
IZANAGI: I’ll put them on the boat and sail them out to the gods for an answer.
[ADD MIST FROM DRY ICE]

3. [THUNDER BLARINGBOOM BOOM SLIDE GOES BOOM]
DISTORTED VOICE:I HEAR YOUR PETITTION IZANAGI AND IZANAMI.IZANAGI
YOU SHOULD HAVE SPOKENFIRST DURINGTHE GREETINGAT THE MARRIAGE.
THEN YOU WOULDN’T HAVE TO PUT YOUR WIFE THROUGH ALL THIS BS.
[IZANAMI and IZANAGI look at each other]
DISTORTED:DON’T JUST STAND THERE ARE YOU GUYS GOINGTO MARRY AGAIN
OR WHAT. *Thunders blare more* Creation deities can’t even mate together properly.
[WHEN THUNDERS BLARE,IZANAMI AND IZANAGI QUICKLYCIRCLE AROUND
THE PILLAR]
IZANAGI: KONICHIWA OKUSAN [everything becomes calm in an instant]
[Both exhale]
IZANAMI:Konichiwa Goshujin
[LIGHTS OFF]
[Then a sharp pain hits her]
IZANAMI:I’m going into LABOURRRRRR
IZANAGI: Ok, breathe in breathe out.
[LIGHTS ON]
[IZANAMI throws out great eight islands of Japan, labelled and in order]
DISTORTED VOICE:THAT WAS ONE HELL OF A WAY TO CREATE JAPAN. YOUR
TASK IS NOW DONE.
ACT 2
SCENE 1
SCREEN SHOWS WORS “MODERN DAY JAPAN”
HANAKO:I didn’t know Japan was born out of a love story! That’s so sweet.
HACHIKO:I have to be indirect when I propose to a girl?
HANAKO:That was all you could think about? Itadakimasu Oji-san! Is that what I say before
eating?

4. KURO:Yes,Hanako. Ahh you little kids, are so cute. These things to old Oji-san (grandpa) are
normal. Oji-san usually explains all these myths to people at the Tenjin festival.
HACHIKO:Itadakimasu Oji-san. What is it about the Tenjin festival that is so interesting?
KURO:Well you see Hachiko and Hanako, it all started in the Heian Period of Japan.
[KURO waves his hand and then slowly one by one, the set changes, as he speaks]
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SCENE 2
KURO:It all started with Emperor Kanmu at the Heian castle.
OTOMO [walks in the room and bows]: Tenno (heavenly sovereign, used to address the
emperor), I am here at your service.
EMPEROR KANMU:My general, do you know what the land of the rising sun needs now?
OTOMO: No I do not know. Tell me wise Tenno.
EMPEROR KANMU:We need to expand our rule up the Honshu region [refers to the map of
Japan] but the armies that I sent to conquer the Emishi people failed me. There is no discipline!
[Bangs the table or something]
OTOMO: What would you propose then, Tenno?
EMPEROR KANMU:Shhhh, I am trying to think. [pauses and strokes beard] Ah! We need a Seii
Taishogun (Commander-in-Chief of the expeditionary force against the Babarians) to set up
regional clan warriors to stop all this resistance from the Emishi people.
OTOMO: That is an excellent idea.
EMPEROR KANMU:Now I want you to do the job. On your knees. [Otomo bows] I hearby
appoint you to be our first ever Shogun. Pick your best warriors to be under you and they shall be
called Samurais. Don’t disappoint me.
SCENE 3
NARRATOR 2: After the death of Emperor Kammu, Emperor Daigo directly ruled Heian Kyo
(capital of Japan) and then after the death of Emperor Daigo, the Fujiwara clan completely took
over the court. The Fujiwara clan was known as hereditary dictators. During that period of time,
there are two well known noble novelists and poets around Heian Kyo, which are Murasaki
Shikibu and Sugawara Michizane. (FYI, Heian Kyo was noted for its art,especially in literature,
poetry and educated and noble people).
EMPRESS FUJIWARA NO SHISHO:Send me our very well known novelist, Murasaki Shikibu.

5. NARRATOR 2:Murasaki Shikibu was well known especially in literature and novel writing. She
was the one who wrote The Tale of Genji which still lives up until today.
[GUARDS INVITED HER IN]
MURASAKI:yes my lord?
EMPRESS FUJIWARA NO SHISHO:I heard so much about you and your reputation as a noble
writer. I would like to invite you to serve as a lady-in-waiting at the Imperial Court.
NARRATOR 2:And not forgetting, it was also rumoured that Murasaki Shikibu and a few other
poets are the ones who wrote the national athem of Japan, Kimigayo. [NATIONAL ATHEM
PLAYS WHILE NARRATOR SPEAKS]
[JAM SESSION]
NARRATOR 2:Now, let me talk about real roots of Tenjin festival. It all started from a very well
known poet, named Sugawara Michizane.
CHINA EMBASSIES: Michizane-san, we would like to appoint you as the ambassador to China.
MICHIZANE:Im afraid I have to declined your invitation. I’d rather support the abolition of the
imperial embassies of China.
NARRATOR 2:In 901, Michizane was demoted by the Fujiwara clan due to political
maneuverings. After his lonely death, drought spread and sons of Emperor Daigo died in
succession. Rainstorms and floods kept happening in the city and the palace was also repeatedly
struck by lightning.
HACHIKO:oh my izanami and izanagi!
NARRATOR 2:Yes, very terrible indeed.
HACHIKO:Then?! What happens next ?!
NARRATOR:and so to solve Sugawara’s angry spirits, the imperial court decided to build a
Shito shrine. 70 years later, Sugawara was deified as Tenjin-sama, GOD OF SCHOLARASHIP
AND LEARNING. And today, manyt8 Shinto shrines are dedicated to him. Even the one I work
in too.