The Island of Dance: Yaeyama, Japan's Southernmost Point (Okinawa prefecture)

For the sixth Online Japan Folk Festival plus, we would like to introduce the songs and dances of Yaeyama islands, Japan’s southernmost point, which is called the treasury of folk performing arts.
The performance in this video was appeared at the first Japan Folk Festival in New York’s Carnegie Hall in 1995.
We hope you enjoy their unique and variety of dances and songs of the Yaeyama and its background history explained by Mr. Koji Orita, advisor,National Theater of Japan.

0:00 Opening
02:14 Greeting by Mr. Koji Orita
03:17 Dance performance
05:05 Introduction by Mr. Koji Orita
06:00 Dance performance
08:32 Last song “Tubaraama”, a love song of Yaeyama and Mr. Orita’s explanation

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Special thanks for photos:
AZAMIYA CO., LTD.: http://minsah.co.jp/
Ishigaki Astronomical Observatory: https://murikabushi.jp/
Ishigaki-yaki Pottery Studio: https://ishigaki-yaki.com/
Okinawa Convention Visitors Bureau: https://www.visitokinawa.jp/
Yoneko-yaki Pottery: http://yonekoyaki.com/

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