Picture Scroll of Comprehensive Dance Styles
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- オドリヅクシソウシエマキ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
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- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
A group dance known as furyu-odori, with dancers in brilliant attire and gay accessories, originated in Kyoto and soon spread all over Japan from the end of the Muromachi Period to the Edo Period. The term furyu originally meant dressing oneself up with cheerful clothing and other personal belongings. People vied for the extravagant decorations of their festival floats and colorful costumers as they paraded in religious festivals. Soon musicians with flutes, drums and bells and singers came to join the dancing parades, and parade dances with characteristic hand movements became a fad. These dances are known to be the origins of today’s Bon dance. Happily dancing people were often depicted on the byobu (heavy paper screen doors) and fuzoku-emaki (picture scrolls of ordinary people’s lives). This one-volume exhibit is a part of the 8-volume Comprehensive Dance Emaki, which depicts 8 different furyu-odori. The ryoshi is decorated with scattered gold foils, and the dancers are depicted in bright colors. On top of each dancing group is a description of that particular dance, the words of the song, etc. 1.Karako-odori (Chinese-Costume Boys’ Dance): Dance by small boys dedicated during autumn shrine festivals. The children are clad in Korean-style costumes, so the dance was obviously patterned after the dancing parade that accompanied Korean Envoys (Jp: Chosen Tsushinshi) to Japan when they used to pay courtesy calls to Japan’s military ruler.2.Komachi-odori (Young Town Girls’ Dance): Young and brilliantly-dressed girls dance along the town streets on July 7 (lunar calendar), the day of the popular Tanabata (Star Festival).3.Sumiyoshi-odori (Sumiyoshi Dance): One of the religious dances started at the Sumiyoshi Jinja Shrine to pray for a good harvest and often danced during the rice seedling planting season.4.Kokiriko-odori (Kokiriko Dance): The folk music instrument kokiriko was made by putting together bamboo slats. People danced to the music and rhythm of the pair of kokiriko of 20-30 cm in length. 5.Wakashu-odori (Young Men’s Dance): This dancing group is joined by young men before they celebrate their coming of age.6.Tojin Odori (Chinese-Costume Young Men’s Dance): This dance shares the same origin as the karako-odori, in which boys dance clad in ancient Korean costumes patterned after the Korean Envoys. It is also said that the dance has incorporated elements of Chinese dances brought over by the Chinese who visited Nagasaki. 7.Kake odori (Dance Relays): People in local towns and villages engage in dances slightly different from locality to locality and parade while dancing on the streets. When they reach the boundary with a neighboring town, the new townsfolk pick up the dance and thus pass on the fun and excitement. The origin of the dance relay can be traced back to chanting with music to drive away evil spirits from a community, which is then passed down to neighboring communities. Thus, the original purpose of these dances was to serve as exorcism chants and prayers for good harvests and the like. 8.Sashimono odori (Banner Dance): Dancers carry on their backs family banners on tall poles, the types often used in battles to ostensibly show the generals’ family crests. This kind of dance may have originated from the basho odori (lit. banana-leaf dance) in which dancers carried poles on their backs likened to banana leaves, loudly and wildly praying for rainfall, making it a sort of rain dance.
Karako-odori (Chinese-Costume Boys’ Dance)
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