Shirahige

  • Japanese: 白鬚 (shirahige)

Shirahige (lit. "white beard") is a kusemai dance with accompanying chanted narrative which relates the story of the founding of Enryaku-ji, drawing upon a version of the story told in the eighteenth volume of the Taiheiki.

References

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