| The Making of DAI-DENGAKU
Mannojo made big effort to complete DAI-DENGAKU. In the beginning, he read old documents referring to DENGAKU (only a few documents were available) including picture scrolls with folk performance researchers and Japanese literature scholars. The examples are picture scrolls made in the Heian era (the 9-12th century)like "Nenchugyoji-Emaki" and "Chojyu-giga", in which you can see how people (the funny thing is frogs are performing DENGAKU in "Chojyu-giga" !!) danced and played music in DENGAKU.
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Mannojo studied fully about the musical instruments, costumes, dances and many other elements of DENGAKU and reproduced them.
Sometimes he recreated them originally. He also adopted the acrobatics in a classical Chinese peformance "SANGAKU", which had been introduced to Japan before DENGAKU was born. |
| It's A Splendid Composite Art!!
In addition to Mannojo (the director and producer), various talents involve in DAIDENGAKU. |
