Dancing car - Maiguruma

Japanese: 舞車 - まいぐるま

[1] 〘 noun 〙① A float pulled during a festival. ※Hanaei Sandaiki - June 7, 1421 (28th year of the Oei era) " _There is a Gion _Festival , a dancing float comes to the Imperial Palace"② A toy pinwheel. ※Zappai, Sumiyoshi Odori (1696) "Kashitetamo - A child gives a dancing float to his child" [2] Noh play. Extra song. Author unknown. In Totomi Mitsuke , there is a custom of having two travelers staying at an inn dance on the night before the Gion Festival, one on the east side and one on the west side of the dancing float. By chance, a man from Kamegae-ga -Yatsu in Kamakura who was traveling to the capital to search for his long-lost wife, and his wife from the capital who continues to search for him, were chosen to dance together on the dancing float, and the two were reunited. They were both beautiful.

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Japanese:

[1] 〘名〙① 祭の時に引く山車(だし)。※花営三代記‐応永二八年（1421）六月七日「有_二祇園会_一、舞車御所へ参る」② 玩具のかざぐるま。※雑俳・住吉おどり（1696）「かしてたも・子が子にもたす舞車」[2] 謡曲。番外曲。作者不詳。遠江(とおとうみ)見付では、祇園祭の前夜、ここの宿に泊まった旅人二人に東西二つの舞車の上で舞を舞わせる習慣がある。たまたま、生き別れた妻を捜しに都へ上る鎌倉亀ケ江ケ谷(やつ)の男と、その男を捜しつづける都の妻がこれに選ばれ、舞車の上で合舞を舞うことになって、二人は再会する。美人揃。

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