2025.3.2 Gagaku, Japanese court music at Kyoto Imperial Palace скачать в хорошем качестве

2025.3.2 Gagaku, Japanese court music at Kyoto Imperial Palace

Due to rain on Sunday, March 2, 2025, the gagaku performance was held at the covered Joumeimon Gate instead of the square in front of Shunkoden as planned. 00:10🔳 Genjoraku This dance depicts the joy of the Hu people (thought to be of Turkish origin) who live in the western regions of China after finding their favorite snake. It is said to be a celebratory dance that was performed when Emperor Xuanzong returned to his camp after winning a battle during the Tang Dynasty. The movements are intense and require physical strength, but it was chosen as a piece in honor of this year's zodiac sign, the snake. 14:03🔳 Karyobin In 736 AD (Tenpyo 8), the Vietnamese monk Buttetsu (date of birth and death unknown) came to Japan with the Brahmin priest Bodhisena (704-760), and brought this piece with him. It is one of the "Rinyu Hachigaku" Indian-Vietnamese dances. It is characterized by children's dancing, and adults never perform it. It is said that the goddess of music, Myoonten, played this piece after seeing Karyobinga, a bird that offers prayers to Buddha in the Pure Land, gather and dance on the day of the memorial service at Gionji Temple in Tenjiku, which is now India. It was popularized by Ananda, one of the ten disciples of Shakyamuni. It is famous for appearing in "Kocho", the 24th chapter of "The Tale of Genji" written by Murasaki Shikibu in the Heian period. Gagaku (Japanese classical music) is a type of Japanese music with a history of over 1200 years. It is an art that was Japanized by fusing music and dances that had been passed down since before ancient times with music and dances that were brought from various countries on the Asian continent. It originally dates back to the Nara period. Around the 10th century, during the Heian period, the court nobles reorganized it and the rough form was established, and it has been passed down to the present day. From the Nara and Heian periods, gagaku was actively performed not only at the imperial court but also at temples and shrines. And for over 1000 years, it has been passed down by professional performers in Kyoto, Nara, and Osaka. During the Meiji period, the Imperial Household Agency's Shikibusho Music Department was established to pass down gagaku. Recently, the number of private gagaku performance groups has been increasing. In addition to the gagaku music, there were also displays of flower arrangements and gorgeous ox carriages, allowing visitors to harken back to the Heian period.