田でん楽がく

noun

ritual music and dancing at shrines and temples

Traditional performing art with roots in Heian-period rice-planting rituals, later incorporated into shrine and temple festivals.

• この神じん社じゃでは毎まい年とし秋あきに田でん楽がくが奉ほう納のうされる。

  At this shrine, dengaku is dedicated every autumn.

noun

rice-planting dance; rice festival

Folk performance originally tied to agricultural rites, often involving acrobatics and comedic elements.

• 田でん楽がくは田た植うえの時じ期きに行おこなわれる伝でん統とう的てきな踊おどりです。

  Dengaku is a traditional dance performed during the rice-planting season.

noun

miso-glazed tofu (or fish)

Abbreviation of 田楽焼き. Skewered tofu, konnyaku, or fish coated with miso and grilled.

See also: 田楽焼き

• 夕ゆう食しょくに田でん楽がくを作つくった。

  I made miso-glazed tofu for dinner.

noun

turning something over like cooking dengaku

Abbreviation of 田楽返し. Refers to flipping something over in the same way one grills both sides of dengaku-tofu.

See also: 田楽返し

• 「田でん楽がく返がえし」という言こと葉ばは、物ものをひっくり返かえす動どう作さを表あらわすのに使つかわれる。

  The term 'dengaku-gaeshi' is used to describe the action of flipping something over.