Japanese culture Kagura "Yamata-no-Orochi" Hiroshima 2022

This is a digest version of "Hiroshima Kagura Regular Performance 2022", which is held regularly in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
It is held every Wednesday at the Hiroshima Prefectural Culture Center in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
The performance on August 17, 2022 will be Yoshida Kagura troupe from Akitakata City, and the program will be "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.
From the depths of the demon's belly, a sword appears; this sword would go on to become a national treasure. Susano-o presents the sword to his sister, the all-powerful sun goddess, Amaterasu, and marries Kushiinada-hime. The two live happily ever after in Izumo.



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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