Yasugibushi - Yasugibushi

A folk song from the Yasugi region of Shimane Prefecture. It has been sung as a drinking song in the region, and its origins lie in the "Sanko-bushi," a song that includes lyrics about geisha (geishas) called Sanko who lived in what is now Sakaiminato City, Tottori Prefecture during the Tenpo era (1830-44). It was then brought to Yasugi by sailors and became a parlor song for the entertainment world. However, as it was used as a backstage for Izumo-ken fist games, it gradually became longer and longer, and the lyrics, which are all about the port, "Izumo-maki-desha Sakai-no-minato..." were popular, and it came to be called "Izumo-bushi" after the opening line. When the lyrics "Yasugi Senken-na-de-tokoro..." were added to "Izumo-bushi," it was renamed "Yasugi-bushi." From the end of the Edo period to the Meiji period, Otsuka Junsen, an acupuncturist in Ido-cho, refined the rhythm of the Yasugi-bushi, and then Imaichiya Denrai, who runs a boiled food shop in Naka Market, refined the accompaniment and other improvements. Then, with the emergence of restaurant owners Watanabe Sakubei and his daughter Oito, the form we see today was completed. With the formation of the Authentic Yasugi-bushi Preservation Society in 1911 (Meiji 44) and Watanabe Oito's recording of a record in 1915 (Taisho 4), the dance spread throughout the country. The dance's "loach scooping" was originally "soil scooping," and is said to have been created in imitation of the movements of men working in iron sand selection workshops in Shimane Prefecture. Various events are held in Yasugi City, such as the Yasugi-bushi Competition and the Yasugi-bushi Iemoto Oito Festival, and the Yasugi-bushi Engeikan opened in 2006 (Heisei 18).

[Tsutomu Takeuchi]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

島根県安来地方の民謡。同地方で酒席の唄(うた)として歌われてきたもので、その源流は、天保(てんぽう)年間（1830～44）に現在の鳥取県境港(さかいみなと)市にいた芸妓(げいぎ)、さん子を歌詞に詠み込んだ『さんこ節』で、それが海路船乗りによって安来に伝えられ、花柳界のお座敷唄になった。ところが出雲拳(いずもけん)での拳遊びの下座(げざ)などに用いられるうちしだいに長編化し始め、しかも歌詞も港づくしの「出雲捲(ま)き出しゃ境の港……」が好んで歌われ、歌い出し文句をとって『出雲節』とよばれるようになった。その『出雲節』に「安来千軒名の出た所……」の歌詞が生まれるに及んで『安来節』と改められた。その『安来節』を幕末から明治にかけて、井戸町の鍼医(はりい)大塚順仙が節回しを整理し、続いて中市場で煮売り屋を営む今市屋伝来が伴奏を整えるなどの改良をしたところへ、料理屋の主人渡部佐兵衛・お糸親子の出現で、今日の型が完成した。1911年（明治44）の正調安来節保存会の結成、1915年（大正4）の渡部お糸のレコード吹き込みなどで全国に広まった。なお、踊りの「泥鰌(どじょう)すくい」は元来「土壌すくい」で、島根県の砂鉄精選の作業場で働く男たちの所作を模して生まれたものという。安来市において、安来節競演大会や安来節家元お糸まつりなど各種催しが開かれていて、2006年（平成18）には安来節演芸館も開館した。

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