【Japanese festival】#17 HIMESHIMA BON ODORI　姫島盆踊り　大分県姫島村　2015 скачать в хорошем качестве

【Japanese festival】#17 HIMESHIMA BON ODORI　姫島盆踊り　大分県姫島村　2015

Bon Odori (Bon dancing) has a history of about 500 years, beginning around the 15th century. The dancing is said to have evolved from Nembutsu Odori (Buddhist prayer dance), in which the name of the Buddha is chanted. The typical style of Bon Odori is for a drummer, who is located on the top of tower, to lead the dancers in their dance around the tower. These days, Bon Odori no longer has a religious quality, but is more a custom where ***the spirits of the deceased who return to earth once a year are greeted and then sent off again. Bon Odori also served as the major form of amusement for many Japanese until around the time of WWII. During the Bon Odori season, a total of seven dancing sites are set up: a central site, and independent sites, which are known as bon-tsubo, for each of the districts on the island. Fifteen to twenty people form a group of dancers in each of these districts. The group first dances in its own district, then travels around the island and dances in the bon-tsubo in each of the other districts. Himeshima Bon Odori can roughly be divided into two styles: traditional dances and newly created dances. Traditional dances include Aya Odori, Kitsune Odori, Saruman-dayu, and Zeni-daiko. The newly created dances are created from scratch each year and are generally danced only in that year. Aya Odori, Kitsune Odori, Saruman-dayu, and Zeni-daiko are designated intangible cultural assets of Himeshima-mura.