Abstract
Between 1988 and 1994, I had the opportunity to realize a research program in Japan focusing on the kagura . The financial conditions of my research were ensured by The Japan Foundation Fellowship Program, and the work was scholarly and was amicable, helped by such eminent colleagues as Professor Tsuge Gen'ichi from Tôkyô University of Art, Professor Yamaguchi Osamu from Ôsaka University, Terence Lancashire from Osaka Ohtani University, Professor Sasamori Takefusa from Hirosaki University, and Professor Itô Nobuhiro from Osaka Kyoiku University. In the course of my fieldwork, I made sound recordings and photos at Shintô shrines and kagura stages of Tôkyô, Kyôtô, Nara, Takachiho, Nikkô, and Higashidôri-mura, and I compiled a CD from my recordings of 1988 (). I am indebted to all the musicians, singers, dancers, and informants who contributed to my sound documentation with their performances. The results of the entire research program have been summed up in a larger study entitled Dance in Front of the Heavenly Rock Cave: Music and Myth in the Japanese Ritual Tradition (). It was published as a book in the Hungarian language, illustrated with music examples transcribed from my recordings, as well as my own photos. In this paper, I would like to present some points of my work.
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