The lyrics of Fukushima Ondo (Kouta Form) In the case of Odori-kyoku in Hawaii, “Fukushima Ondo” which originates in Eastern Japan will be Kouta Form, and “Iwakuni Ondo” which originates in Western Japan will be Kudoki Form. The 2 largest song It partly exists in Eastern Japan, such as Tsukudajima Bon Dancing, but the characteristics is that the distribution is mostly concentrated in Western Japan, that is, Tenryu River to the west. In Kudoki Form, they sing the long stories which has the word form like “7,5,7,5” and “7,7,7,7”. They sing continuously the the so-called short poem of the form of the modern times Kouta Form, “7,7,7,5 “letters. In the case of Traditional type Odori kyoku (Mainland type), the singing form is divided into the so-called Kouta Form and Kudoki Form which are “the 2 largest singing forms of the Modern times Bon Dance Songs” On the hand, “Traditional type Odori-kyoku” has a strong image that “it is inheriting the old lyrics continuously”, but in reality, it has a more flexible and complex style of lyrics than the Modern dance song type Odori-kyoku. The lyrics of the “Folk song dance type Odori-kyoku” and “Modern dance song type Odori-kyoku” which are especially large in numbers, are almost the same between Japan and Hawaii, so we won’t take them up in here. In the “Modern type Odori-kyoku”, in most cases the lyrics become a fixed and peculiar one because basically the lyrics are created together with the composition of the music, and they are mediated by the recording reproduction type media such as records. The lyrics of Bon Dance widely differ depending on the type of Odori-kyoku in “Traditional type” and “Modern type”. ■ Traditional type Odori-kyoku – the lyrics of the Bon Dance song Each Odori-kyoku has the “lyrics”, but the way of existence differs according to the type of Odori-kyoku. Let’s look at the linguistic module of the Bon Dance in Hawaii in the end of “the aspect of the art”.Īt first, let’s look at the “lyrics” of the Odori-kyoku (concretely, the song of Bon Dance).

Origin of the bon dance