著者

桂 博章 KATSURA Hiroaki

出版者

秋田大学教育文化学部

雑誌

秋田大学教育文化学部研究紀要 人文科学・社会科学自然科学 (ISSN:1348527X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.69, pp.37-44, 2014-03-31

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Provincial performing arts in Akita prefecture called “Sasara” can be sketchily grouped into two styles and respective manner of Sasaras are mainly distributed in Northern and Central (Senboku) regions of the prefecture. Additionally, each local settlement has characteristic manner of Sasara, and each Sasara is supposed to have been established under influence of different kind of Sasaras performed in other regions, which have been brought on by “Wakaze”, labors of farming families, and transmitted by some reasons. In Tsuzureko (Kita-Akita city) and Fujikoto (Fujisato town) areas located on the Northern part of the prefecture, Sasaras have been separately handed down by both “Kami(Upper) and Shimo(Lower) communities. Rivalry between the communities as well as a system encouraging children to participate in Sasaras could have contributed to carrying on the tradition. In these areas, some community associations are taking certain role in handing down provincial performing arts across the entire community and cultivating successors, which might be a good role model to maintain the traditions going.