Long live Owari - Owarimanzai

Banzai is a traditional dance handed down in the Chita Peninsula area of ​​Aichi Prefecture. It is also called Chita Banzai. Farmers would travel around their donnaba (dannaba) during the New Year's holiday in the farming off-season, but some would visit all over the country all year round. It is said that Muju Kokushi, the founder of Choboji Temple in Kigazaki (Nagoya City), started this dance with a poor farmer and his son in the mid-Kamakura period. The five religious Banzai, "Hokkekyo Banzai," "Rokujo Banzai," "Shinriki Banzai," "Oshiro Banzai," and "Jiwari Banzai," are performed by Tayu and Saizō, and after each performance, they perform the humorous "Fukukura Mokura (Naka-Kanaka Banzai)." Tayu typically wears a standing eboshi hat, a hitatare robe, and holds a fan in his hand, while Saizō typically wears a Daikokuzukin hood, kosode, a tattsuke robe, and holds a drum in his hand.

After the Meiji period, a few people would perform on stage "Goten Manzai," "Sankyoku Manzai," a play involving drums, shamisen, and kokyu, and dialogue (also known as Okuda-bushi or Ainarae).

[Masahiro Nishikado]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

愛知県の知多半島一帯に伝承する万歳。知多万歳ともいう。農民が農閑期の正月に檀那場(だんなば)をめぐって歩いたが、年中全国を門付(かどづけ)する者もいた。鎌倉時代中葉に木賀崎（名古屋市内）の長母寺(ちょうぼじ)の開山無住(むじゅう)国師が貧農父子に始めさせたという。太夫(たゆう)と才蔵の2人が演じる「法華経万歳」「六条万歳」「神力万歳」「御城万歳」「地割万歳」の宗教的な五（御）万歳が基本で、一つを演じ終わると滑稽(こっけい)な「福倉持倉(ふくらもくら)（なかなか万歳）」を演じる。太夫は立烏帽子(たてえぼし)に直垂(ひたたれ)、手に扇、才蔵は大黒頭巾(だいこくずきん)に小袖(こそで)、裁着(たっつけ)、手に鼓が一般的である。

　明治以降は舞台で数名で「御殿万歳」や、鼓、三味線、胡弓(こきゅう)入りの芝居の「三曲万歳」や掛け合い（奥田節、アイナラエとも）を演じたりした。

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