Japanese traditional performing arts Kagura "Yamauba" Hiroshima 2022

This is a digest version of the Hiroshima Kagura Regular Performance 2022 held on November 23, 2022.
It is held every Wednesday at the Hiroshima Prefectural Culture Center in Hiroshima, Japan.
Performed by the Suzuhari Kagura Troupe from Asakita Ward, Hiroshima City, the program will be "Yamamba".
The mother (Yamamba) passionately plays the role of watching her child (Kaidomaru) grow up and part from him.
"Yamauba"
Imperial warriors Minamoto-no-Raiko and Watanabe-no-Tsuna are ordered by the capital to dispose of rogue bandits in Agero in Echigo (current Niigata).
The two venture to Echigo but soon lose their way in the mountains.
As night falls, they spot a single house illuminated in the darkness where an aging mother (Yamauba) and her son (Kaidomaru) live and ask for lodging for the night. Unbeknownst to them, the mother and son are the very rogue bandits they have been sent to kill. Driven from the capital after the death of her husband, Yamauba and her son came to despise the capital and everyone living there, becoming renegade outlaws against the imperial court. The two attack Raiko and Tsuna but are soon bested, and while Yamauba's son tells her
to flee, she instead begs Raiko and Tsuna to take her life in exchange for letting her son go free.
However, Raiko takes pity on Yamauba and instead takes her son on as a retainer of the imperial court. Kaidomaru would later go on to become Sakata-no-Kintoki, one of the most powerful samurai generals of all time.
The "Hiroshima Kagura Regular Performance" is held every Wednesday at the Hiroshima Prefectural Culture Center in Otemachi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, with the aim of conveying the appeal of "Hiroshima Kagura" to people from many directions, including tourists from the center of Hiroshima City and abroad.
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