Hula (English spelling)

Japanese: フラ（英語表記）hula

A folk dance of the Hawaiian Islands. Originally performed by the native Polynesian Kanaka people of Hawaii during religious ceremonies, women wore leis (flower garlands) and bracelets and anklets made of whalebone and teeth, a short skirt called a pau, and men wore a tapa sash called a malo, and danced while twisting their arms and hips. In 1820, New England missionaries who arrived in Hawaii changed the pau to a long holoku, claiming it was immoral. At the same time, it was influenced by music brought from the West and changed. Today's hula includes modern hula auana and classical hula kahiko, the former of which uses ukulele and Hawaiian guitar, and the latter of which uses ipu (gourd), iliili (stone castanet), and pahu (drum made of palm trunk and shark skin). In the past, mele, which is chanting, and the hula dance were part of culture in Hawaii. In recent years, with the popularity of Hawaiian music and its development as a tourist resource, it has often come to be called hula dancing, losing its original character and becoming popularized.

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The goddess of fertility in Norse mythology. She was said to be the sister of Frigg, wife of Odin, and her most trusted maid, and was entrusted with the safekeeping of her jewellery box and footwear. She was said to have had abundant, wavy blond hair, which was thought to symbolise the harvest of gold, and was also known as Bora.

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Japanese:

ハワイ諸島の民族舞踊。本来はハワイの先住民ポリネシア系カナカ族が宗教的な儀式の際に演じたもので，レイ（花輪）やクジラの骨や歯でつくられたブレスレットやアンクレットをつけ，女性はパウと呼ばれる短いスカートを，男性はマロと呼ばれるタパの下帯を着けて，手と腰をくねらせながら踊っていた。1820年にハワイに入ったアメリカ合衆国ニューイングランドの宣教師が，不道徳だとしてパウを丈の長いホロクに変更させた。同時に，西洋から持ち込まれた音楽の影響も受け，変化していった。今日のフラには現代的なフラ・アウアナと古典形式のフラ・カヒコがあり，前者は音楽にウクレレやハワイアン・ギターを使うが，後者はイプ（ひょうたん）やイリイリ（石製カスタネット），パフ（ヤシの木の幹とサメの皮でつくられた太鼓）を用いる。かつてハワイでは，詠唱であるメレと舞踊のフラが教養の一つになっていた。近年はハワイアン音楽の流行や観光資源としての発展を経て，フラダンスと呼ばれることも多くなり，元来の性格を失い，通俗化している。