Sugegasa Dance - Sugegasa Dance

Japanese: 菅笠踊 - すげがさおどり

Unlike the flower-decorated Hanagasa dance, this is a type of folk dance in which the dancers hold plain sedge hats. The most famous dance is from Taira Village, Higashitonami County, Toyama Prefecture, known as Etchu Gokayama, and is set to the Mugiya-bushi song, which begins with "Mugi ya rapeseed wa yoina." In this dance, young men dressed in black crested kimono, hakama, and white tabi socks line up in a horizontal line, wearing white sashes and carrying swords, and dance briskly in a straight line with the music and singing of shamisen, shakuhachi, kokyu, yotsutake, and shime-daiko drums. [Yoshikawa Shuhei]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

笠踊のうち花飾の付いた花笠の踊りとは異なり，飾りのない菅笠を持って踊る民俗舞踊の一種。越中五箇山で知られる富山県東砺波（ひがしとなみ）郡平村の，〈麦や菜種はヨイナ〉ではじまる《麦屋節》で踊るものが有名である。この踊りは，黒紋付，袴，白足袋の青年たちが，白襷をつけ，刀をさして，横一列に並び，三味線，尺八，胡弓，四つ竹，締（しめ）太鼓のはやしと歌で，菅の一文字笠を直線的にきびきびと動かして踊る。【吉川周平】

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