Study on the Issues relationg the Succession of Folk Performing Arts in Cultural Properties Protection Policy

Reviewing a Case of Kowaka-mai of Ohe, Dengaku and nohmai of Mizuumi and Noh and kyogen of Nogo

Abstract

Most of folk performing arts have been sought to be passed down from a viewpoint of cultural properties protection, but recently the matters of the succession of the performance such as the way of the succession and the change of the performing arts themselves, have been more serious. This paper demonstrates how folk performing arts are being inherited by examining Kowaka-mai of Ohe, Dengaku and nohmai of Mizuumi and Noh and kyogen of Nogo, which are designated an important intangible folk-cultural property by the Japanese government. The paper also draws the problems of a cultural properties protection policy relating to the succession of folk performing arts, and proposes assignments hereafter to be tackled.