Kagura - "Yamata-no-Orochi"

Kagura - This is the first digest version of the "Hiroshima Kagura Activity Resumption Project Hiroshima Kagura: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter Special Performance" held at the Hiroshima Prefectural Citizens Cultural Center.
This year's performers are the Hasadake Kagura Troupe from Aki Takata City, and the program is "Yamata-no-Orochi".
“Yamata-no-Orochi"
Once upon a time in the province of Izumo, there lived an elderly couple and their eight daughters. Each year, the fearsome snake demon, Yamata-no-Orochi, would descend from the mountains and devour one of their precious daughters. After seven years, only one daughter, Kushiinada-hime, remains. The elderly couple, Ashinazuchi and Tenazuchi, fearing for the life of their only remaining daughter, were lamenting their misfortune when Susano-o-no-Mikoto, a powerful god, heard their pleas.
Susano-o hatches a plan to be rid of the snake demon using a barrel of poisoned sake. The plan goes like this: Kushiinada-hime would hide behind the barrel of poisoned sake, casting her reflection into the barrel. Yamata-no-Orochi then sees the reflection and, thinking it to be the real Kushiinada-hime, would then devour the sake barrel, thus poisoning him so that Susano-o could then strike the final blow. When the demon appears, everything goes according to plan and Susano-o faces the drunken demon, still powerful despite the poison. After a fierce battle, Susano-o defeats Yamata-no-Orochi by striking a final blow to the demon's stomach.
■Hasadake Kagura Troupe HP
hasadake.kakurezato.com/
■Hasadake Kagura Troupe Instagram
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■Instagram
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■The Kagura Japan「神楽」Site
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