Julie A. Iezzi (Professor, UHM Dept. of Theatre and Dance) was granted a professional name in Tokiwazu, a narrative chanting genre over 250 years old, most commonly heard in kabuki. Her professional name, Tokiwazu Tokisato (常磐津 都樹里; see photo below) was bestowed by her master teacher, Tokiwazu Tokizō (常磐津 都㐂蔵) and the headmaster (iemoto) of the Tokiwazu genre, Tokiwazu Mojidayū IX (常磐津 文字太夫) in a solemn ceremony held in Kyoto on October 6, 2022 (see photo above). Iezzi, who has been practicing Tokiwazu narrative since the late 1980s, is one of only two Americans to ever receive a professional Tokiwazu name. The name is also quite clever, involving word play devised by her master. The characters for “Tokisato” can also be read “Miyako (no) Juri,” “Miyako” meaning capital (i.e. Kyoto, a reference to residence and center of her masterʻs practice and name of his association, the Miyako Kai), and “Juri” being an approximation, in kanji, of her given English name “Julie.“