Kagura Dance
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Kagura Dance (kagura, Japan)
***** Location: Japan
***** Season: New Year
***** Category: Observance
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Explanation
Kagura Dance and Music are part of the Shinto Rituals for the Gods, relating to ancient legends and were performed by priests and shrine maidens.
Now in some rural areas it is counted as a form of local art (minzoku geinoo) and preformed by the villagers themselves during the annual shrine festival. Some are are more like festive folk-drama. The area of Chichibu is especially known for its local kagura.
Some performances last more than one day. Even children perform in local kagura performances (kodomo kagura 子供神楽).
Masks made from Japanese paper (washi) are used and most old costumes are very precious.
There are various kagura types throughout Japan, read my article here:
Kagura Dance 日本の神楽
Gabi Greve
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http://www.city.hamada.shimane.jp/en/kagura/orochi.htm
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Kagura: Dance to the Gods, by Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers
WKD Library
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Other kigo in this context:
Shinto music and dancing for the New Year, dai kagura 太神楽
Court Kagura, mikagura 御神楽
village Kagura, satokagura 里神楽
lion dance, shishi mai 獅子舞
lion's head [worn in the lion dance] shishigashira 獅子頭
hearth-purification, kamadoharai 竈祓
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Worldwide use
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Things found on the way
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HAIKU
天高し 狐も出でしい 村神楽
ten takashi -
kitsune mo ideshi
mura kagura
bright autumn sky -
even a fox appears at
the local shrine dance
heller Herbsthimmel -
sogar ein Fuchs erscheint
beim Dorf-Shreintanz
in Chichibu, near Tokyo
Gabi Greve
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posted by Gabi Greve @ 11/01/2005
3 Comments:
thank you so much for sharing Kagura scene.
In my boyhood Shrine dancing team come to every one's house for celebrating the New Year.
They wear the awfull masks and attacked small children in their
playing dance.
It was my old dream.
sakuo
. KAGURA at Shiarishi Island, by Amy Chavez, January 2006 .
I heared part of this kagura on local radio. It must have been a phantastic atmosphere!
Gabi Greve
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Dance the kagura
twelve skulls taken from boars
offered on the altar
Sarutahiko
in the tatami parlor
your nose is too long
Yokagura
The Ama no Iwato Shrine, in Takachiho, derives its name from a myth recorded in the early chronicle Kojiki (712) in which the solar deity Amaterasu Ōmikami takes her glorious light from the world and shuts herself up in the cavern Ama no Iwato (Rock Door of the Heavens). Ama no Iwato is the name both of the Shrine and of one of thirty-three yokagura—an all-night performance in mask of a cycle of dramas accompanied by song and dance that is put on some fifteen or twenty times each year during the winter months.
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Kagura are accompanied by the songs (seri uta) of a group of young men who urge the dancers on to a pitch of excitement. A verse of one of their songs goes: “Koyosa yokagura nya serototekitaga sainā sera nyasokonoke washigaseru nonnokosai sai yoisassa tokoigasassa yoisassa. (“You said you wanted us to sero your Yokagura tonight. We said we would and here we are so, nonnokosai sai yoisassa tokoigasassa yoisassa.”)
Tateo Fukutomi, translated by David P. Dutcher
http://www.poetrylives.com/SimplyHaiku/SHv5n3/features/Fukutomi.html
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