Definition & Meaning | English word DENGAKU
DENGAKU
Definitions of DENGAKU
- (historical) A rustic Japanese agricultural celebration.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using DENGAKU in a Sentence
- Various folk dances, costume processions, kagura, dengaku, bugaku, and noh performed at festivals are also registered as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists.
- In the Heian period (794-1185), sangaku developed into sarugaku by merging with Japanese traditional performing arts such as dengaku, and in the Kamakura period (1185-1333), it was divided into Noh, which was a drama of serious singing and dancing, and kyogen, which was a comical speech and play.
- The nohkan flute was created by Kan'ami and his son Zeami in the 15th century, during the time when the two were transforming the Noh theatre forms Dengaku and Sarugaku.
- The representative collection of ko-uta is the 16th-century , which includes a selection of sōga, songs to be intoned and kōtai (小謡) songs from dengaku and sarugaku plays, arranged by genre, and more than a few of its entries sing of the joys and sorrows of the common people of that time.
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