Minatokuri Bushi being performed by members of the Kariyushi Kai of Okinawa

This dance is in the Genre of Okinawan Classical dance. This performance is from 2004 when the Kariyushi kai and the Chicago okinawa Kenjinkai conducted a joint performance in Chicago.

This nisai odori incorporates the vigorous cestures that are characteristic of the genre. The dance is performed by dancers holding a jingasa hat. Such hats would have originally been worn by soldiers awaiting battle, but any such allusions are totally absent from Ryukyuan dances in which they are used. In fact the description I received in regards to the dance was: After the rainfall, the sun appears and thoughts of ones lover enter the mind.

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