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Created page with "*''Japanese'': 地獄の曲舞 ''(jigoku no kusemai)'' ''Jigoku no kusemai'' (lit. "kusemai of Hells" or "Hell Dances") is a ''kusemai'' dance in which the dancer reenact..."
*''Japanese'': 地獄の曲舞 ''(jigoku no kusemai)''
''Jigoku no kusemai'' (lit. "[[kusemai]] of Hells" or "Hell Dances") is a ''kusemai'' dance in which the dancer reenacts, or represents through her dance, four of the [[Six Realms]] of Buddhist existence: Hell, the realm of [[hungry ghosts]] (''gaki''), the realm of beasts, and the realm of warrior spirits (''[[shura]]'').
The dance originally stood on its own, as a piece in the ''kusemai'' repertoire. It was later adopted into the [[Noh]] repertoire, e.g. being used in the Noh play ''[[Hyakuman]]''. [[Zeami]] later revised the play, changing out ''Jigoku no kusemai'' for a different, new ''kuse'' section. However, ''Jigoku no kusemai'' was then employed by Zeami's son [[Kanze Motomasa]], in the play ''[[Utaura]]'', which tells the story of a shaman reunited with his son.
==References==
*Shelley Fenno Quinn, ''Developing Zeami'', University of Hawaii Press (2005), 58.
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[[Category:Muromachi Period]]
''Jigoku no kusemai'' (lit. "[[kusemai]] of Hells" or "Hell Dances") is a ''kusemai'' dance in which the dancer reenacts, or represents through her dance, four of the [[Six Realms]] of Buddhist existence: Hell, the realm of [[hungry ghosts]] (''gaki''), the realm of beasts, and the realm of warrior spirits (''[[shura]]'').
The dance originally stood on its own, as a piece in the ''kusemai'' repertoire. It was later adopted into the [[Noh]] repertoire, e.g. being used in the Noh play ''[[Hyakuman]]''. [[Zeami]] later revised the play, changing out ''Jigoku no kusemai'' for a different, new ''kuse'' section. However, ''Jigoku no kusemai'' was then employed by Zeami's son [[Kanze Motomasa]], in the play ''[[Utaura]]'', which tells the story of a shaman reunited with his son.
==References==
*Shelley Fenno Quinn, ''Developing Zeami'', University of Hawaii Press (2005), 58.
[[Category:Poetry and Theater]]
[[Category:Muromachi Period]]