Stichting Hoorn Oude Muziek NuOpening Festival Oude Muziek2000 June
The city of Hoorn, an old harbour, with a long history of shipbuilding. organised in the year 2000 many events to commemorate the 400 years friendship between Japan and the Netherlands, that started, paradoxically, with a shipwreck of Dutch ship De Liefdeon the shore of Japan.The Dutch Shinto master made a shinto ceremony at the opening of a music festival in the historical Oosterkerk, which was preceded by a short introduction to explain the ceremony.