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2007/8/3

岡谷地南部神楽 Okayachi-nanbu-kagura Okayachi Nanbu Kagura

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Okayachi Nanbu Kagura is a traditional folk performing art handed down in Toyoma Town in Tome City, Miyagi Prefecture. It is designated as an intangible cultural property by the city.

In the periods around the beginning of the 17th century, the kagura dance called Hoin Kagura was performed by mountain practitioners in the areas in the northern part of Miyagi Prefecture and the southern part of Iwate Prefecture. It was developed into the Nanbu Kagura, a new style of kagura dance performed by farmers.

In Towa Village in present Tome City, villagers created a new style of kagura dance named Sagadachi Kagura, which was a combination of Hoin Kagura and Nanbu Kagura. In around 1905, the Sagadachi Kagura troupe visited Okayachi Village and taught their kagura dance to the local people, who later adopted several Kyogen plays from another Nanbu Kagura dance handed down in the adjacent village and created their original kagura dance, Okayachi Nanbu Kagura.  

Okayachi Nanbu Kagura is characterized by up-tempo music, elaborate dancing techniques and dramatic stories. It is an entertainment for farmers rather than a dedicatory ritual. Most stories are borrowed from mythology or historical tales, to which elements of Kyogen are added. The plays such as “Yamato Furisode” and “Utatsu Katakiuchi-no-ba (the Revenge in the Village of Utatsu)” are unique to this kagura dance.

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Toyoma-machi, Tome, Miyagi Prefecture 987-0701
name
Okayachi Nanbu Kagura
phone
0220-34-2698




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