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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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
Kagura performed by miko at the Hachiman shrine in Tamba, Hyōgo Prefecture Kagura ( 神楽 ) or 'entertainment of the gods ' includes music, dance and poetry and comprises mi-kagura of the court, o-kagura of major shrines such as Ise Jingū , and village sato-kagura.
It is characterized by the use of a building just 1x1 ken in size with the entrance on the gabled end covered by a veranda. [1] [2] In Kasuga Taisha's case, the honden is just 1.9 m x 2.6 m.
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 ...