Location Hakui History and Folklore Museum
Hakui Lion Dance Culture: Fukae Town Tengu Mask
- Display status
- No permanent display
- Period
- Late Edo Period
- Form/Type
- Folk material
- Location
- Hakui City
Hakui's lion dances are characterized by a lion and a tengu (long-nosed goblin) dancing together to music. The tengu dances in a manner that provokes or comforts the lion, and the lion dances in response. Tengu costumes are also unique: they wear black eboshi hats (headgear worn by nobles in court dress), red long-nose masks and hunting costumes with sashes. The old tengu masks remaining in Fukae Town have no period inscriptions, however they are an old item that appears to have been made in the late Edo Period. In Fukae Town, this expression on these masks is still being produced to this day.
Tengu are thought to be Sarutahiko, the god of guidance, as they walk at the head of the procession of portable shrines during festivals. Many masked performing arts have been handed down in Noto, and this lion dance tengu mask can be said to be one of them.
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A local history museum that opened in 1983. They collect materials that convey the history and culture of Hakui City (archaeological materials, historical materials, folk implements, etc.), preserve them, conduct research on them and display them publicly. The folk implements exhibition room on the first floor explains the tools used in Hakui's past way of living. The history exhibition room on the second floor displays valuable excavated items mainly from the Yoshisaki-Suba Site, a Nationally Designated Historic Site, and the Jike Site, as well as historical materials such as ancient documents. They also hold ancient experience classes and events such as magatama (comma-shaped stone bead) making and fire starting experiences. Please feel free to stop by and experience the history of Hakui.
38-1 Tsurutada, Tsurutamachi, Hakui, 925-0027 Google Maps
TEL 0767-22-5998 E-mail post@city.hakui.lg.jp
