Traditional Arts Practice Grant

We will subsidize projects that allow participants to experience various traditional performing arts multiple times by themselves, making it easy for even first-timers to enter. The purpose of this program is to promote traditional performing arts by providing opportunities for people to experience the fun of traditional performing arts, and by helping them take root in their daily lives and increasing the number of people who regularly attend lessons.

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Traditional Arts Practice Grant |Application Guidelines

target business

This subsidy covers part of the project costs for projects sponsored by organizations with headquarters or head offices in Tokyo (Theaters, music halls, arts organizations, NPOs, executive committees, etc.).

This subsidy program supports efforts to increase the number of people who experience traditional performing arts by themselves in order to promote them.

The program is intended to provide participants with the opportunity to experience the practical skills of the same event more than once, and to encourage participants to continue experiencing the practical skills.

Projects that meet all of the following requirements

1. Projects that focus on actual practical experience, such as playing musical instruments, dancing and acting, and practicing flower arrangement, tea ceremony, and calligraphy
2. Projects that are not one-off experiences, but have a mechanism that allows one participant to experience the same event multiple times over a certain period of time. Those who have not experienced the traditional performing arts in the field can participate.
3. Participants should be invited to the general public.

Events to be covered

Traditional Japanese Performing Arts

• Kigaku (Gagaku, koto, shamisen, shakuhachi, flute, Nohgaku-bayashi, Hogaku-bayashi, etc.)
• Utaimono (Sokyoku, jiuta, nagauta, kouta, etc.)
• Kataramono (Various joruri, Heike, biwagaku, yokyoku, etc.)
• Theater (Noh and Kyogen)
• Buyo (Japanese dance)
• Kado (flower arrangement)
• Sado (tea ceremony)
• Calligraphy
• • Intangible Folk Cultural Properties (folk performing arts and customs) that have been passed down in specific regions are not eligible.

application ceiling

Up to 1/2 of subsidized expenses and up to 1 million yen

• All amounts equivalent to consumption tax and local consumption tax are not subsidized.

Related News

1. 07.23 – [Notice of Target Project Selection] Fiscal Year 2026 "Traditional Arts Practice Grant"
2. 03.17 – 【Open Call for Applications】Traditional Arts Practice Grant 2026 (Application Deadline: May 8, 6:00 p.m.)
3. 07.24 – 【Notice of Target Project Decision】FY2025 "Traditional Arts Practice Grant"

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grant program

• Creation Grant

• Social Grant

• Regional Grant

• Startup Grant

• Traditional Arts Practice Grant

• Grant for Artistic City

• TOKYO CITY CANVAS: a Grant for Artistic City support program

• Life with Art Grant

• Tokyo Live & Stage Support Grant

• Grant for Accessibility

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• annual grant schedule

• Activity Report Meeting

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