Book/Printed Material Folk Dances of Japan.
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Title
- Folk Dances of Japan.
Summary
- This hand-painted picture scroll contains illustrations of eight kinds of Japanese folk dances: Sumiyoshi Odori, a dance handed down at the Sumiyoshi Shrine in Osaka; Oise Odori, a dance from Ise Province, where the Ise Shrine is sacred to Amaterasu, the principal female deity of Shinto; Kake Odori, in which a group of people dance toward the edge of a village or town to exorcise its evil sprits; Kokiriko Odori, in which folk dancers clack bamboo sticks in each hand; Komachi Odori, in which a group of girls in beautiful clothes dance to drum music at the Festival of the Weaver; Karako Odori, a children's dance in the Chinese fashion; Hōsai Odori, a prayer-chanting dance originated by the crazy priest, Hōsai; and Sashimono Odori, a dance with battle flags imitating those used on battlefields. The illustrations are all painted in a style that predates ukiyo-e (mostly produced from the mid-17th century), and the scroll has brief comic descriptions in verse in the upper part. The scroll was drawn in the style of a popular painter, whose name is unknown, and is historical evidence of folk dances performed presumably in the early 17th century.
Created / Published
- [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1600 to 1650]
Headings
- - Japan
- - 1600 to 1650
- - Folk dancing
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - Original resource extent: 1 scroll, 23.4 centimeters in length.
- - Original resource at: National Diet Library.
- - Content in Japanese.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021667424
Online Format
- compressed data
- image