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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
  • pdf
  • image

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Folk Dances of Japan. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1650, 1600] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667424/.

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(1600) Folk Dances of Japan. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1650] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667424/.

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Folk Dances of Japan. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1650, 1600] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667424/>.