Aerial acrobatics

Japanese: 空中曲芸 - くうちゅうきょくげい
Aerial acrobatics

...The 13m diameter ring (saddle ring) is the same regardless of the structure or size of the circus, and the mobile tent is called the big top. The general repertoire of modern circuses consists of equestrianism, animal acrobatics, human aerial acrobatics, ground acrobatics, clowning, light dancing, etc. There are many types of animal acrobatics, but in 1889, it was Hagenbeck who succeeded in taming four lions by having them gallop around a ring surrounded by iron fences in a two-wheeled car with a trainer riding on them. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "aerial acrobatics" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…なお,直径13mのリング(馬場)は,サーカスの構造,規模に関係なく一定であり,移動テントはビッグトップと呼ばれる。 現代のサーカスの一般的な演目は,曲馬芸,動物曲芸,人間の空中曲芸,地上曲芸,道化,軽舞踊などから成りたっている。動物曲芸は種類も多いが,鉄柵でかこんだリングを,4頭のライオンが調教師を乗せた2輪車で疾走するという馴致的調教に成功したのは1889年,ハーゲンベックであった。…

※「空中曲芸」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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