Kiriake Shinji
[Genre] | Shintoo |
[Also Known As] | Ritual of the Decline of the Light |
Kiriake Shinji appears on the following albums
Album | Artist | |
Musical Anthology of the Orient, Unesco Collection Vol 5 | ||
"Ritual of cutting the light". This is a ritual stamping dance performed by a group of men on August 15. It ends the summer season and is danced in the mountain village Susa (south of Izumo) before the sanctuary of the storm-god, Susa-no-Wo. Formerly each of the seven villages of the Susa district had to delegate seven men, so that a group of forty-nine dancers might form a circle before the sanctuary. The instruments are yoko-bue, kane, shime-daiko (in Susa called taiko) and tsuzumidaiko. The dancers wear very attractive blue-and-white kimono and wide-brimmed straw hats, known as suge-gasa. They gather up their kimono tightly and tuck them into their belts so that the kimono look rather like short trousers. The standard number of participants in Kiriake shinji is now: one flute, three kane, one taiko, and two tsuzumi-daiko. This recording was made with one flute, one kane, one taiko, and one tsuzumi-daiko. Recorded at the Susa-shrine on August 2, 1957 |