NIPPON Kichi - 日本吉

2007/8/3

小園臼太鼓踊り Kozono-usu-daiko-odori Kozono Usudaiko Odori

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Kozono Usudaiko Odori is a folk performing art dedicated at the autumn festival of Kadokawa Shrine in Kadokawa Town, Miyazaki Prefecture in November every year.

Kadokawa Shrine was founded in 1530 as the guardian god of the people and livestock of the area. The enshrined deities are Ukemochi no Kami, Okuninushi no Mikoto, Oyamatsumi no Kami and Sarutahiko no Mikoto. At the autumn festival, after the events such as the rice cake throwing and the parade of the mikoshi (portable shrine) and the children’s mikoshi, the valiant Kozono Usudaiko Odori dance starts at around 7:00 PM.

It is said that the origin of this dance is the cerebration dance for victory at the time of the Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s Korean invasion in the 16th century. On the festival day, the dance starts with the sounds of Japanese bells to call up soldiers. Performing static and dynamic dances to the chant telling of the war, dancers express every scene of the battles.

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Kozono, Kadokawa-cho, Higashi-Usuki-gun Miyazaki Prefecture 889-0600
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Kozono Usudaiko Odori




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