{"id":24622,"date":"2021-03-10T14:34:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/2234-2\/"},"modified":"2021-03-10T14:34:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:34:52","slug":"2234-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/2234-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsurugata Sasara"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"\u9db4\u5f62\u3055\u3055\u3089\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/afaRuqYGf6w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Location: Tsurugata, Noshiro City<br \/>\nSite(s) of performance: Kaizoji Temple and other places in the community<br \/>\nDate(s): August 13<br \/>\nCategory: Sasara and Horse Dance<br \/>\nIt is unclear when the Tsurugata Sasara started. According to legends here, when Lord Satake was moved from Hitachi-\u014cta (present-day Ibaraki Prefecture) to Akita in 1602, a lower-class samurai danced to entertain the lord and prevent wrong-doers, and he came to Tsurugata and started the tradition here. On the other hand, some say sasara was already practiced here before 1602. Despite its name of Tsurugata Sasara (sasara being a kind of lion dance), it includes not only lion dances but also stick dances and yakko dances (samurai servants\u2019 dances). The yakko dances seem to be a recent addition, which replaced s\u014dshimai (strongmen\u2019s dances) and manzai (celebratory speech performances). The lion dances are performed by one lion with one performer, who beats a small drum at the waist without a drumstick while dancing. Music is played with drums, Japanese flutes, and songs.<\/p>\n<p>About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/sasara\">Sasara and Horse Dance (Koma-Odori)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Tsurugata, Noshiro City Site(s) of performance: Kaizoji Temple and other places in the community Date(s): August 13 Category: Sasara and Horse Dance It is unclear when the Tsurugata Sasara started. According to legends here, when Lord Satake was moved from Hitachi-\u014cta (present-day Ibaraki Prefecture) to Akita in 1602, a lower-class samurai danced to entertain &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/2234-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tsurugata Sasara<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sasara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}