Kyoto Festival: Young Japanese Girls Dancing at Zuishin-in Temple (Hanezu Odori)

In Japan she is known as one of the three most beautiful women in the world Cleopatra Yangkihi and Japan's Osano Komatsu Akira Komatsu also has many legends but the most famous one is that she was beautiful and very smart There is a legend that the person known as Ozono Matsuki once lived in this area before the temple was built The temple was built in 991 AD Mr Komatsu is from the 800s AD That would make him over 100 years old Now that plum blossoms are famous the most beautiful thing is to see the plum garden and there are about 230 plum trees planted most of which are already in light pink bloom There are also white ones but "hanazuri" means a light pink color Nowadays when people in Japan think of flowers they probably think of cherry blossoms In the Heian period plum blossoms were considered the epitome of flowers When old Tano Matsuma lived in this area I have a story about growing up playing with the children around here there are legends about dancing and singing with the children and reciting songs There's a type of dance called "Hanezo Odori " The Hanazono Odori festival is held every year on the last Sunday of March There is also a performance called "Hōnō Mai" the day before First there is a ceremony where we perform a dance offering to the Buddha at this temple It is customary to perform the dance once the day before the event and then publicly display it the next day We hold a contest every year called the "Suijin Mise Ozano Matsuri Contest " and every year participants from all over the country take part Three people were selected and they will help out on the day of the Ne Zo Odori as well as participate in various events and they will also serve as MC I sell snacks when I say "wiroru" There are four performances a dayat 11 a m 12:30 p 1:30 p and 3 p but these are for elementary school students in the Tano area Third fourth and fifth graders are small children who always practice after school ends at night and those children are dancing The content of the story is about the love story of Tano Komatsu but there is also a story that says "Momoko is good " About five kilometers west from here is a place called Fukukusa and Mr Fukukusa lives there I fell in love at first sight with Misaki Ozano and she approached me saying she wants to be with me and asked me to marry her but Misaki Ozano is fine with it If you come to my place for 100 days I'll ask you to marry me Matsuzawa stayed like that for 100 nights straight That's about five kilometers this way In the old days people would walk or ride a cow or a horse I think they were there There is a sad story about dying on the road on the 99th night and this story is theme of a dance The roles of Mr Komatsu Mr Matsuda and the person carrying the hat are divided into three types and Mr Komatsu and Mr Matsuda's peaches are good They are dancing to the rhythm and music of the platform There is another dance called "Ima" as well but these two are both danced four times and basically it's for children who have graduated from the "Hanezu" dance When they became a high school student that person started to dance The modern era is like the Heian period back then it was a class society but there was a dance performed by women of high status they would compose songs on the spot Dancing to the song is something that became popular in this era but it's called "Shōmyō " and the song is no longer improvised We use the songs passed down here every time and now we are dancing to what is called "Zuishin-ai " Japan has its own traditional dances but it's hard to see small children like elementary school students performing cute dances like this Dance costumes and plum blossoms I would like you to take a look at dance