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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
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 ...
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.
Shinto music is the ceremonial and festive music of Shinto (神道), the indigenous religion of Japan. Its origin myth is the erotic dance of Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto which lured Amaterasu from her cave.
Kagura-zuzu bells are made to look like ears of rice, while hoko-suzu (also known as hokosaki-mai-suzu) are bells shaped like spears. There are also tesuzu (hand bells) with handles. Kagura bells have 15 bells (3, 5, and 7 from the top), hoko-suzu have 8 bells under the tsuba, and tezuzu have 1 bell at the end of the handle. Many of these bells ...
A variety of musical scales are used in traditional Japanese music. While the Chinese Shí-èr-lǜ has influenced Japanese music since the Heian period, in practice Japanese traditional music is often based on pentatonic (five tone) or heptatonic (seven tone) scales. [1] In some instances, harmonic minor is used, while the melodic minor is ...