Two of my “Facebook friends” probably with no connection at all happened to have posted videos of “Lion dance” or 獅子舞 recently. Because I didn’t know it was still around, I was a bit surprised. Seeing it at my mother’s parents’ home when I was a child was the last time. I hear my grandpa was living large when young. So, various kinds of peddlers came to his house to sell high priced produce; and street performers, as well, for good gift money.
Thinking of it now, seeing Lion dance up close was a unique experience, however, as I was a little child, I just got terrified and cried terribly.
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『フェイスブックのお友達』の恐らく何も接点のない二人が少し前にたまたま獅子舞の動画を投稿されました。獅子舞がまだあるとは知りませんでしたので、びっくりしました。
子供の頃母の実家で見たのが最後でした。母の父は昔は羽振りが良かったらしく、高い品物を売ろうとする様々な行商人やご祝儀が目当ての大道芸人がよく来ていました。
今思えば獅子舞を間近に見るというのは珍しい体験だったはずですが、幼かった私はただ恐ろしくてぎゃん泣きしただけでした。
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O seas, mountains, rivers/
Of hometown/
Lion’s mask of the New Year lion dance/
Translation and calligraphy by Chio
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