蛇踊

Japanese

Kanji in this term
蛇	踊
じゃ Grade: S	おど(り) Grade: S
goon	kun’yomi

Alternative spellings
蛇踊り 龍踊 竜踊

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) じゃお​どり [jàóꜜdòrì] (Nakadaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [d͡ʑa̠o̞do̞ɾʲi]

Noun

蛇(じゃ)踊(おどり) • (jaodori) 

1. dragon dance, a traditional Chinese folk dance, also performed in Nagasaki and other places
   • 1986, Okada Akira, Dorama to zenjin kyōiku [Drama and general education]‎^[1], page 56:

     そこで、まず先生(せんせい)が、「みんな、これを覚(おぼ)えているかい」そう言(い)ってテープレコーダーのスイッチをいれました。「ジャン、ジャン、ジャーン……」という例(れい)の長崎(ながさき)の「おくんち」の蛇(じゃ)踊(おど)りのおはやしがテープから流(なが)れてくるんです。

     Soko de, mazu sensei ga,“minna, kore o oboete iru kai” sō itte tēpu rekōdā no suitchi o iremashita.“Jan, jan, jān……” to iu rei no Nagasaki no “okunchi” no jaodori no ohayashi ga tēpu kara nagarete kuru n desu.

     Then, first the teacher, saying “Everyone, do you remember this?” switches on the tape recorder. “Jang, jang, jang...” a sample of the accompaniment to Nagasaki's “okunchi” dragon dance thunders from the tape.

2. snake dance, part of a Hopi religious ritual that involves handling rattle snakes

References

• Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
• Kenkyusha's English-Japanese Dictionary for the General Reader (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Kenkyusha, 2012, →ISBN