Daigashira-ryu

Japanese: 大頭流 - だいがしらりゅう

A school of Kusemai (dance). Kusemai began to change in the mid-15th century, and became a dance to accompany long narrative plays. There were many different schools of Kusemai, but Kōwakamai, which originated in Echizen, became the most popular. Kusemai from this period is also simply called mai, and one school of this dance was the Ogashira school, whose name occasionally appears in records after the entry for February 15, 1516, in the Goyūdono Jōnikki. Even in the early modern period, the Kōwaka and Ogashira schools are sometimes cited as schools of dance.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

曲舞（くせまい）の一流派。曲舞は15世紀の中ごろから変質を始め，長編の語り物に合わせて舞うようになる。その流派にはさまざまあったが，なかでも越前で興った幸若舞（こうわかまい）が主流を占めるようになる。この期の曲舞は単に舞とも称されるが，その舞の一流派に大頭流があり，《御湯殿上日記》の永正13年(1516)2月15日の記事をはじめ，以後の記録に時にその名が見える。近世に入っても舞の流派として幸若，大頭の2流をあげることがある。

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