Saikoku kudari

• Text: Rin'ami
• Music: Kan'ami
• Japanese: 西国下り (Saikoku kudari)

Saikoku kudari ("Journey to the Western Provinces") is a kusemai dance drama by Rin'ami, with music by Kan'ami, composed specifically for the Yamato sarugaku repertoire.

The dance-drama relates a story of the Taira clan fleeing west after being driven out of Kyoto by the Minamoto clan during the Genpei War.

References

• Shelley Fenno Quinn, Developing Zeami, University of Hawaii Press (2005), 57.