いきなりでしたが、一曲だけ太鼓を叩くことになりました。繁昌亭で初めて本番に叩きました。結構うまくいっていましたが、一番最後の「とんとん」のところ、笛の最後の「ぴ〜〜〜〜〜〜っ」が終わるまで待つべきなのに、ちょっと調子に乗って途中で「とんとん」叩いてしまいました。それで笛がちゃんと終わったら、もう一人、大太鼓を叩いている先輩が、本当は私も一緒に叩くだったはずだった「とんとん」を一人で叩きました。それで舞台袖にいる４−５人が同時に私に「早い！」と言ました。せっかく上手くいっていたのに！二度と同じ失敗はしません！

三河君は今日太鼓叩いていません。

Today I was called upon to drum at the Hanjotei Rakugo Theatre for the first time!  It was one song.  Everthing went really well until the final two emphatic beats of the song.  I was supposed to wait for the flute to finish its final long note, but I got so caught up in it all that I wacked the drum while the flute was still playing "Ton!  Ton!"  Then the note finished and the other drummer who I was supposed to be in time with whacked his drum at the right time, "Ton! Ton!"  At which moment three storytellers and two shamisen players all turned to me and said in perfect unison, "Early!"  How embarrassing.  I'll never make that mistake again.

My younger brother storyteller Sanga didn't get to drum today.