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Kagura suzu are a set of twelve-to-fifteen bells on a short-staff used in kagura dance. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The set consists of three tiers of bells suspended by coiled brass wires from a central handle: two bells on the top tier, four bells on the middle tier, and six bells for the bottom tier.
Suzu are round, hollow Japanese Shinto bells that contains pellets that sound when agitated. They are somewhat like a jingle bell in form, though the materials produce a coarse, rolling sound. Suzu come in many sizes, ranging from tiny ones on good luck charms (called omamori ( お守り ) ) to large ones at shrine entrances.
Kagura suzu – hand-held bell tree with three tiers of pellet bells; Kakko – small drum used in gagaku; Kane – small flat gong; Kokiriko (筑子、 こきりこ) – a pair of sticks which are beaten together slowly and rhythmically; Shakubyoshi (also called shaku) – clapper made from a pair of flat wooden sticks
Hokosaki Suzu (鉾先鈴, lit. ' Halberd Bell ') – Similar to a Kagura Suzu, a Hokosaki Suzu is a set of several bells on a short-staff. Hōko (這子, lit. ' crawling child ') – A soft-bodied doll given to young women of age and pregnant women in Japan as an amulet to protect both the new mother and the unborn child.
Susanoo and Orochi in Izumo-ryū kagura. Satokagura, or "normal kagura", is a wide umbrella term containing a great diversity of folk dances derived from the Imperial ritual dances (mikagura), and incorporated with other folk traditions. It is the partial origin of both Noh and kyōgen. [10] A number of traditions of folk kagura exist: [5] Miko ...
The repertoire includes eight forms that may be traced back to the eighth century: kagura-uta (kagura songs), azuma asobi (eastern entertainment), kume-uta (palace guard songs) ō-uta (big songs), onaibi-uta (night duty songs), ruika (funeral songs), ta-uta (field songs), and yamato-uta (Yamato songs).
Suzu may refer to: Suzu (bell), small Japanese bells used in Shinto; Suzu, Ishikawa, city in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan; Sabzuyeh, Neyriz, also known as Sūzū, a village in Neyriz County, Fars Province, Iran
19th century yamato-goto (shown here without bridges); collection of the Tokyo National MuseumThe yamatogoto (大和琴 / やまとごと), also called wagon (和琴 / わごん) and azumagoto (東琴 / あずまごと), is a six- or seven-stringed plucked bridge zither which, unlike the koto and other stringed instruments, is believed to be truly native to Japan, and not imported from ...