It is the season for wisteria flowers to bloom beautifully!
This time, Japanese dance at home is “Fuji Ondo,” which is also famous as an insert song of Nagauta “Fuji Musume.

Wisteria Musume” is still one of the most widely performed Japanese dances.
Have you ever seen the lovely girl dancing in front of wisteria flowers all over the stage?

Originally, it was a dance adaptation of a wisteria branch on the shoulder of a girl in an Otsue painting, and the dance was well received by the audience because of the way the girl slipped out of the Otsue and danced.

In March 1937, however, Kikugoro VI tried a new choreography in which a wisteria flower spirit, enchanted by a pine tree, incarnates itself as a girl and dances. This “Fuji ondo” (lyrics by Oka Kitaro) replaced the “Itako” section that had previously been inserted after the “kudoki” and became so popular that it is now danced almost exclusively in that form.

It is a very cute dance of a girl who drinks sake and gets drunk using a fan as a sake cup.
Please try the dance!

References
Complete Works of Japanese Dance, Vol. 5, Nippon Buyosha, 1981