{"id":24747,"date":"2021-03-10T14:35:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/4564-2\/"},"modified":"2021-03-10T14:35:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:35:36","slug":"4564-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/4564-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sekiguchi Sasara Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"\u95a2\u53e3\u3055\u3055\u3089\u821e\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_lirsL0hIFA?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: Sekiguchi, Yuzawa City<br \/>\nSite(s) of performance: Hachiman Shrine and other places in the community<br \/>\nDate(s): September 16<br \/>\nDesignation: City-Designated Intangible Folkloric Cultural Property<br \/>\nCategory: Sasara and Horse Dance<br \/>\nIn the early 9th century, General Sakanoue Tamuramaro conducted a northern campaign upon the order of Emperor Kanmu and defeated King Akuro of the barbarians. On his way northward, he built Gongend\u014d Temple on Mt. East-Ch\u014dkai for Yakushi Buddha, enshrined a statue of the mythical kirin creature, and prayed for victory. After his success in defeating the enemy, General Sakanoue celebrated by himself performing a dance of the kirin with a kirin head. The sasara dance here is in the tradition of the three-lion dance widely practiced in this area, but, because of its connection with General Sakanoue\u2019s story, the sasara dance of Sekiguchi is performed with five kirins. In addition to the leading male kirin, two male kirins and two female kirins dance together. Despite its name, there is no sasara as a musical instrument used in this performance. Music is played with shime-daiko (small high-pitched Japanese drums), Japanese flutes, and hand cymbals.<\/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: Sekiguchi, Yuzawa City Site(s) of performance: Hachiman Shrine and other places in the community Date(s): September 16 Designation: City-Designated Intangible Folkloric Cultural Property Category: Sasara and Horse Dance In the early 9th century, General Sakanoue Tamuramaro conducted a northern campaign upon the order of Emperor Kanmu and defeated King Akuro of the barbarians. On &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/4564-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sekiguchi Sasara Dance<\/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-24747","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\/24747","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=24747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akita-minzoku-geino.jp\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}