Bon Dance and Yukata

盆踊り・浴衣姿

盆踊りの中でも特に有名な者は、徳島の阿波踊りなどですが全国各地に各種の盆踊りがあります。外国人観光客の間でも盆踊りは人気があり、まためずらしがられて、踊りの中に飛び入りする外人さんもいるほどです。

各種の盆踊りは、人々が円を描きながら踊るものと更新しながら踊るものとに二大別されるそうです。いずれにしても、浴衣姿がとてもよく似合います。浴衣を機内と、様になりませんし、盆踊りらしく見えないから不思議です。このため、盆踊り用の特別な浴衣を持ってくる人もいますし、大勢の人がそろいの浴衣をきることもあります。外国の人たちにも浴衣はよく似合いますよ。

Bon Dance and Yukata

There are many kinds of bon dances all over the country but Awa-odori in Tokusima Prefecture is especially famous among them. It is so popular among foreign tourists that some of them even join the people who are dancing. Maybe it seems curious to them.

A variety of bon dances are grouped into two distinct types. In one type people dance in a circle and in the other people parade dancing and move forward. In either case, people look nice in yukata. It is strange that if people don't wear yukata, they don't look nice and it doesn't look like a typical bon dancing. So some people have special yukata for a bon dancing. In some cases, a lot of people wear the same yukata in a group. I am sure foreign people look nice in yukata.