nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: Because it is easy to do the hair in chigomage and it is a traditional, cute and refined hairstyle; from the Meiji period to prewar days in the Showa period some kindergartens and elementary schools (so-called "Ojosama gakko," schools for rich young ladies) adopted chigomage and purple hakama (pleated and divided skirt made in fine stripes) as their regulation uniform (students of junior high school or above wore swept-back hair with the bun at the back of the head).
Japanese: 簡単に結う事が出来、古風で可憐で気品があることから明治から昭和戦前に掛けて一部の幼稚園・小学校(いわゆるお嬢様学校)では稚児髷に紫袴を制服に制定した(中学生以上は束髪)。
English: Even now chigomage is sometimes worn by girls when they take part in Shichi-go-san (a day of prayer for the healthy growth of young children) events, Jusan Mairi (a visit to a shrine or temple to celebrate being 13 years old), festivals and so on (however, today gaily dressed girls mainly wear Yuiwata [hair style like cotton wrapped up] or Katsuyama-mage [hair style with combs and pins], so that chigomage is not to be seen very often).
Japanese: 現在でも七五三や十三参り、祭礼などに参加する少女が結うことがある(但し、現在では晴れ着の少女の髪形は結綿や勝山髷が主流で稚児髷は思ったほど多くない)。
English: June 14: Sumiyoshi no Otaue (the rice planting ceremony of Sumiyoshi Taisha Shrine) at Sumiyoshi Taisha Shrine (Sumiyoshi Ward, Osaka City; girls wearing their hair in boys' style)
Japanese: 6月14日：住吉の御田植※＠住吉大社（大阪市住吉区、少女が少年の髪形）
English: It is botanically named Cerasus spachiana f. spachiana (Prunus pendula f. pendula).
Japanese: 学名Cerasusspachianaf.spachiana（シノニムPrunuspendulaf.pendula）
English: Yoshitsune Senbonzakura is a program of ningyo joruri (traditional Japanese puppet theater) or Kabuki of Gidayu-bushi (musical narrative of the puppet theatre) or performed along with Gidayu-bushi.
Japanese: 義経千本櫻（よしつねせんぼんざくら）は、義太夫節またそれに合せて演じられる人形浄瑠璃・歌舞伎の演目。
English: It describes the revenge by a busho (Japanese military commander) of the Taira family and the people involved in it as well as their happiness and sadness, starting from the exile of MINAMOTO no Yoshitsune from the capital after the Genpei War.
Japanese: 源平合戦後の源義経の都落ちをきっかけに、平家の武将の復讐とそれに巻き込まれた者たちの喜悲こもごもを描く。
English: Shinokiri (literally cut into four parts) generally indicates the fourth section of kiriba (one part of gidayu), Kawatusra Hogen yakata (Scene of Kawatsura Hogen's palace) of this work.
Japanese: 四ノ切（しのきり）は一般に本作の四段目の切場、河連法眼館の段を指す。
English: MINAMOTO no Yoshitsune ran away when he was expelled from the Horikawa residence in Kyoto due to his conflicts with his older brother MINAMOTO no Yoritomo after the Genpei War.
Japanese: 源平合戦後、源義経が兄源頼朝と対立し京都の堀川邸を追われた後の逃避行。
English: Based on these incidents, the author created a drama containing a complicated story.
Japanese: これらをもとに、作者の創造によるドラマが加えられ、複雑な筋をもつ作品が誕生した。
English: Although Yoshitsune is the main character, he is so to speak a keystone to which many other characters are connected.
Japanese: 主人公は義経だが、彼はいわば多数の登場人物を繋ぐ扇の要のような存在である。
English: Things mainly told in the story are about the enemies of the Genpei War including TAIRA no Tomomori, TAIRA no Koremori and TAIRA no Noritsune who were supposed to be dead, a family of common people in Yoshino, and a imposter pretending to be Tadanobu SATO, a vassal of Yoshitsune's.
Japanese: 物語の主体となるのは源平合戦で滅びたはずの敵平知盛・平維盛・平教経、吉野の庶民一家そして義経家臣佐藤忠信の偽者である。
English: Therefore, the three stories about TAIRA no Tomomori, a family in Yoshino and the fake Tadanobu are performed in turn.
Japanese: この為あらすじも、平知盛・吉野の一家・偽忠信それぞれを主役とした三つの筋が交互に上演される形態となっている。
English: The legend of Yoshitsune, which had already been popular as the hero of a tragedy, was recreated with an excellent narrative and became a huge hit.
Japanese: もともと悲劇の英雄として人気の高かった義経伝説に、優れた作劇（後述）がされた本作は大当たりとなった。
English: Along with "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami" (Sugawara's secrets of calligraphy) and "Kanadehon Chushingura" (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), which were created subsequently, Yoshitsune Senbonzakura came to be referred to as one of the three greatest works of Gidayu Kyogen (Kabuki adaptations of puppet plays).
Japanese: 後世『菅原伝授手習鑑』『仮名手本忠臣蔵』と共に義太夫狂言の三大名作のうちの二作目と評されるようになった。
English: The debut performance was thought to be 'one of the best hits ever' ("Jorurifu") and since then it is often performed as Ningyo joruri and Kabuki as a popular play even today.
Japanese: 初演は「古今の大当たり」と評され（『浄瑠璃譜』）、以来人形浄瑠璃・歌舞伎とも人気演目として現在でも盛んに上演される。
English: This play is, especially the sections of Toriimae and others, performed not only for commercial purposes but also in jishibai performance (amateur performance by local residents).
Japanese: 商業演劇のみならず、鳥居前の段等は地芝居（地域住民による素人芝居）でも良く演じられる。
English: He fought well in the Genpei War, and was later pursued by his older brother Yoritomo, the supreme commander of the Minamoto clan.
Japanese: 源平合戦で活躍するも、その後源氏の総大将である兄頼朝に追われる事となる。
English: Based on the legend of Yoshitsune, he is described as a hero who was rational and perfect for a sho (commander) of an army.
Japanese: 義経伝説を背景に、武勇に優れ一軍の将に相応しく情理をわきまえた人物として描かれる。
English: Ginpei who runs a boathouse in Daimotsu-ura was actually Shin-chunagon Tomomori (New vice-councilor of state Tomomori) who was thought to have died by drowning himself in Dannoura.
Japanese: 大物浦で船宿を営む銀平は、実は壇ノ浦で入水して果てたと思われた新中納言知盛であった。
English: However, in Kabuki, some of the scene titles are different from the section names in the text (example 1).
Japanese: しかし、歌舞伎では場面の名称が本文の段名とは異なることがある（例1）。
English: The whole play is not performed very often; instead, some of the most interesting scenes are performed independently.
Japanese: 全編を通して上演される機会は少なく見ごたえのある場面が独立して上演される事が多い。
English: Also, sometimes one of the three main stories are selected and the relevant scenes are performed (example 2).
Japanese: また本来交互に演じられる三つの筋のうちの一つの筋に該当する部分を抜き出して上演することもある（例2）。
English: Michiyuki Hatsune no Tabi => Yoshino yama Although this is the first scene of the fourth section in the text, when the whole play is performed in Kabuki, it is often performed after the section of Daimotsu-ura.
Japanese: 道行初音旅　→　吉野山　本文では四段目の冒頭だが、歌舞伎の通し上演では大物浦の場の後に上演される事が多い。
English: Daijo (prologue) section of Sento Imperial PalaceCloistered Emperor Goshirakawa gives a Hatsune no tsuzumi to Yoshitsune, as reward grants of the battle.
Japanese: 大序仙洞御所の段　義経に後白河法皇から、合戦の恩賞に初音の鼓が下される。
English: Sadaisho (Major Captain the Left Division of Inner Palace Guards) FUJIWARA no Tomokata, who is a favorite retainer of the Cloistered Emperor, pretended that it was an order from a retired emperor and ordered Yoshitsune to subdue Yoritomo.
Japanese: 法皇の寵臣、左大将藤原朝方はこれを院宣とみせかけ、頼朝討伐を命じる。
English: Section of KitasagaWakaba no naishi, who was hiding in Kitasaga with Rokudaigimi, was attacked but able to get away thanks to Kokingo's wit.
Japanese: 北嵯峨に六代君と共に潜伏していた若葉の内侍が襲われるが、小金吾の機転により脱出する。
English: He questions Yoshitsune about the facts that the heads of the busho of the Taira clan (Tomomori, Koremori and Noritsune) were fake and that he married Kyo no kimi, who was a princess of the Taira clan.
Japanese: 届けられた平家の武将（知盛・惟盛・教経）の首が偽首だったこと、平家の姫である卿の君を娶ったことを問う。
English: HAYAMI no Tota who came to search, attacks Shizuka, but Tadanobu SATO appears and defeats Tota, and travels along with Shizuka.
Japanese: そこに捜索に来た逸見藤太が静を襲うが、佐藤忠信が現れ藤太を討取り、静に同道することになる。
English: Section of Tokai-yaYoshitsune and his party head to Kyushu and wait for a boat at Daimotsu-ura in Settsu Province.
Japanese: 渡海屋の段　九州を目指す義経一行は、摂津国大物浦で船出を待っていた。
English: Section of Daimotsu-uraTomomori disguises himself as a ghost and plans to kill Yoshitsune by flying with the wind from the ocean, but Yoshitsune discovers it and Tomonori loses again.
Japanese: 大物浦の段　知盛は幽霊に化け海上の嵐に乗じて義経を葬る作戦であったが、義経に露見しておりまたも敗れる。
English: The Taira clan entrusts Antoku-Tei to Yoshitsune, and court ladies of the clan including Naishi no suke no tsubone drown themselves and finally Tomonori also drowns himself.
Japanese: 安徳帝を義経に預けた平家方は、典侍の局を初めとする女官達、そして最後に知盛が入水して果てる。
English: Section of ShiinokiWhen Wakaba no naishi comes to know that her husband TAIRA no Koremori is heading to Mt. Koya, she follows him along with Rokudaigimi and Kokingo via Yamato.
Japanese: 椎の木の段　夫、平惟盛が高野山に向かったと聞いた若葉の内侍・六代君・小金吾の一行は、大和を経由して後を追う。
English: They take a break at a tea stall in Shimoichi-machi, Yoshino, Yamato Province on their way, and a local bandit, Igami no Gonta, deceived them and took their money for traveling.
Japanese: 途中大和国吉野下市町の茶店で休憩するが、思わぬことに地元の無法者いがみの権太に路銀を騙り取られてしまう。
English: Section of the death of Kokingo on the battle fieldKokingo who stood up against the pursuers of FUJIWARA no Tomokata dies at last.
Japanese: 小金吾討死の段　藤原朝方の追っ手に立ち向かった小金吾はついに息絶える。
English: On his way home from a villagers' meeting, Yazaemon of the sushi shop accidentally finds the dead body of Kokingo.
Japanese: 村の寄合いからの帰り、すし屋の弥左衛門は偶然小金吾の遺骸を見付ける。
English: Section of the sushi shopThe master of the shop Yazaemon, his wife Oyone, their daughter Osato and a good-looking assistant manager Yasuke live in the Tsurubezushi.
Japanese: すしやの段　釣瓶鮓には、主人の弥左衛門・女房のお米、娘のお里、美男の手代弥助が暮らしている。
English: Yazaemon comes home from a villagers' meeting where he was informed that the pursuers to seek the Taira clan are in Shimoichi village.
Japanese: 寄合いで平家探索の手が下市村まで伸びてきていることを知って戻ってきた弥左衛門。
English: Meanwhile, a disinherited son Gonta visits his mother when his father is not home and takes some money from her.
Japanese: そんな中、勘当されている息子の権太が父親の目を盗んで訪れ、母に無心をして出行く。
English: When Sengi yaku (investigator) Kagetoki KAJIWARA finally comes to the restaurant, Yazaemon moves the Koremori family to another place.
Japanese: いよいよ詮議役の梶原景時がやってきて、弥左衛門はは維盛一家を別の場所に移す。
English: Tadanobu SATO visits Yoshitsune there, and says that he does not know about Shizuka since he has just come back from his hometown.
Japanese: そこに佐藤忠信がやってくるが、自分は故郷から戻ったばかりで、静の事は知らないという。
English: The play became diverse because the story is told as a gojitsu monogatari (stories written later) rather than a simple epic story about the Genpei War.
Japanese: 単純に源平合戦を叙事劇として上演するのではなく、後日譚としたことで作劇の幅が大きく広がった。
English: It succeeded to provide various types of scenes by reproducing a scene of the battle, making an abstractive performance into a realistic one (i.e. making a Noh play into a Kabuki play), and creating a completely fictional story.
Japanese: ある場面では合戦の再現を、ある場面では抽象劇の写実劇化（能の歌舞伎化）を、ある場面ではまったくの創作、と多彩な形態の場面群を提供する事に成功した。
English: This is a scene full of the beauty of style, such as the performance of aragoto (Kabuki play featuring exaggerated posture, makeup, and costume) by brave Tadanobu, humor of the dokegataki (an enemy who provokes laughter) HAYAMI no Tota, and Tachimawari (a fight) by zohyo (common soldiers).
Japanese: 忠信の勇壮な荒事の演技と早見藤太の道化敵のおかしさに、雑兵による立ち回りなど様式美の濃い一幕である。
English: The hikkomi (exit performance) of Tadanobu at makugire (fall of the curtain) shows a peculiar move called '"fox" roppo' which is supposed to be a transfiguration of a fox.
Japanese: 幕切れの忠信の引っ込みは、狐の変化と言う設定で、「狐六方」と呼ばれる特殊な型を見せる。
English: The long outerwear Ginpei is wearing is shaped like a clothing made in Ezo called attus (atsushi).
Japanese: 銀平の出で着ている長い上着は、アットゥシ（あつし）という蝦夷地産の衣服をかたどったもの。
English: Whereas it is based on the Funa Benkei of the Noh play, in which TAIRA no Tomomori is a ghost, Tomonori disguising himself as a ghost appears here to reproduce the scene of the Battle of Dannoura.
Japanese: 能の船弁慶を下敷きにしているが、能の平知盛は幽霊であるのに対し、本作では幽霊に偽装した知盛本人が登場し壇ノ浦の合戦を再現している。
English: After being defeated by Yoshitsune, the scene where TAIRA no Tomomori describes the battle by comparing Rokudo (six posthumous worlds) as 'being thirsty and wanting water in the ocean is exactly what Gakido (the Buddhist hell of starvation) is' clearly shows the nature of the Heike Monogatari (The tale of the Heike) which is featured by the strong influence by Buddhist thought.
Japanese: 義経に再度敗れた後、平知盛が戦乱を「潮（うしお）にて水に渇（かっ）せしは、これ餓鬼道。・・・」と六道に例えて述べるくだりは、仏教思想の影響の強い平家物語色を感じられる場面である。
English: He is an uncontrollable villain in the first half, but he turns out to be a good man who dies for the lord along with his family.
Japanese: 前半部では手のつけようが無い悪党だが、最後に家族ともども主君のために命を捨てる善人である事がわかる。
English: In the case of Gonta, after he was stabbed by his father, he confesses his true feelings and dies in the arms of his mother.
Japanese: 権太の場合は、父親に刺されたのち本心を吐露し、母親に抱かれながら死んでいくという役柄である。
English: Uzaemon ICHIMURA the 15th acted the villain of 'cheap hoodlum who couldn't make a living in Edo and came home in Yamato' very cooly, while Enjaku JITSUKAWA the second acted Gonta as a 'delinquent in the country' very naturally; they were regarded as two of the greatest performances of Gonta.
Japanese: 十五代目市村羽左衛門の悪党ぶりは「江戸で食い詰めて大和の故郷に帰ってきたチンピラ」を格好よく演じ、対する二代目実川延若のこくのある権太は「田舎の不良」をそのままに演じ切り、権太の双璧とされた。
English: It is said to be the creation of a sword fight arranger Yaenosuke BANDO who was impressed by the Tachimawari around the last scene of a silent period drama 'Orochi' (Serpent).
Japanese: 殺陣師阪東八重之助がサイレント時代劇「雄呂血」のラスト近くの立ち回りに啓発されて創作したといわれている。
English: The structure, which focuses on the villainy of human beings by comparing the love of animals towards their relatives with human beings where even blood-relatives fight against each other, is excellent.
Japanese: 動物の肉親への情愛を描くことで、肉親同士が争う人間の非道さが浮き彫りになるという構成が優れている。
English: Since this section is often performed, in the world of Kabuki, 'Shinokiri' indicates this scene.
Japanese: 頻繁に上演されるため歌舞伎の世界では、「四の切」といえばこの場面を指す。
English: Partly due to the fact that the main character is a fox, this section startles audiences by glaring staging called keren (playing to the gallery) such as quick change from a samurai to fox, walking on a parapet, a midair stunt (kabuki staging technique) and a sudden appearance of Tadanobu KITSUNE.
Japanese: 主役が狐ということもあり、武士から狐への早変り・欄干渡り・宙乗り・意表をついた忠信狐の出現など、ケレンと呼ばれる派手な演出で観客を驚かせる。
English: During the Meiji to Showa periods, people tried to get rid of keren in order to sophisticate Kabuki.
Japanese: 歌舞伎は明治時代から昭和にかけて高尚化を目指し、ケレンを廃する演出が志向された。
English: Even during such a period, this scene had been continuously performed as one of the typical keren performances.
Japanese: しかし、この場面はそういった時代にもケレンの代表演目として演じ続けられてきた。
English: Tsurubezushi is a shop which peddles sushi fermented with fish and vegetables.
Japanese: 釣瓶鮓は、なれ寿司製造販売の店であって、もっぱら桶売りを行っている。
English: Thus, Yasuke does not make sushi nor customers eat and drink at the store.
Japanese: そのため、弥助が寿司を握ったり客が店で飲食いしたりするようなことは無い。
English: In the second episode 'Ugoku Shitai' (The Moving Corpse) in the first season of a TV drama series 'Ninzaburo FURUHATA' screenplayed by Koki MITANI, the killer Ukon NAKAMURA the sixth (played by Masaaki SAKAI) performed Tadanobu Kitsune.
Japanese: 三谷幸喜脚本のテレビドラマ「古畑任三郎」の1stシーズン第2話「動く死体」で、殺人犯となった6代目中村右近（演・堺正章）が狐忠信を演じていた。
English: Gonta' means a rambunctious boy in Osaka dialect, which originates from 'Igami no Gonta.'
Japanese: 大阪弁でやんちゃな子供を意味する「ゴンタ」は「いがみの権太」に由来する。
English: In the petroleum industry during the period from 1955 to 1964, sellers dumping petroleum products were called 'Gonta shop' after Igami no Gonta in this play.
Japanese: 昭和30年代の石油業界では、石油の不当廉売店を本作に因んで権太店と呼んでいた。
English: Warikanoko was a hairstyle widely worn by women from their late teens to early twenties in the late Edo period.
Japanese: 割り鹿の子（わりかのこ）とは江戸時代後期に広く十代後半から二十代前半の女性に結われた髪型。
English: This hairstyle, in which the chignon of Marumage (rounded hair style of a married woman) was split in two and tied showing a decorative cloth, was commonly worn by wives of wealthy merchants and sometimes by unmarried women working at restaurants such as Machiai-jaya (tea house to lend seats and tables, or rooms).
Japanese: 丸髷を二つに割って布を見せる要領で結うこともあって豪商夫人が結う場合が多かった他、待合茶屋などの飲食店で働く未婚女性が結う場合もある。
English: It was somewhat a reversed version of Ichogaeshi (butterfly style) hairstyle, and the decorative kanoko cloth (tie-dyed cloth with a pattern of minute rings), which bound up the chignon through a kogai (hair combing up spatula), gave a sweet impression.
Japanese: 銀杏返し（蝶々髷）を逆にしたような結い方をして、笄の下に通して髷にかけた鹿の子が可憐な印象。
English: Tie the hair into a ponytail, stick a kogai into the roots of the knot, tie the middle of the ponytail with a paper cord and divide it into two, and put them on both ends of kogai, turning the hair bundles inside out.
Japanese: 一束にした髪の根元に笄を挿してから髪の束の途中を元結でくくって二つに分け、毛束の裏表をひっくり返すようにして笄に掛ける。
English: Then, also divide the end of the part tied with a paper cord into two, make loops, and twist them around the roots of the hair crossing each other (just like making Chigomage [hairstyle for kids] on the back of the head).
Japanese: それから元結でくくった部分より先の髪をやはり二つに分けて、輪を作った後に根元に交差して巻きつける（稚児髷を後に作る要領）。
English: Marumage is the most representative hairstyle (Japanese coiffure) for married women from the Edo period to the Meiji period.
Japanese: 丸髷（まるまげ）とは、江戸時代から明治時代を通じて最も代表的な既婚女性の髪形(日本髪)。
English: Although this mage is done up in almost the same way with katsuyama-mage, its loop of mage became thicker and wider so that it looks like a ball rather than a loop.
Japanese: 勝山髷とほぼ同じ結い方をするが、髷の輪が厚く広くなって輪と結うより丸に見えるようになったのがこの髷である。
English: Because women wear shimada-mage when they are single and marumage after their marriage, the heroine of the opera 'Madama Butterfly' has to change her hairstyle during the performance if she is to be faithful to Japanese customs (the heroine who was geisha [Japanese professional female entertainer at drinking party] in Nagasaki gets married at the beginning of the play); so that two kinds of wigs are sometimes prepared.
Japanese: 未婚時代には島田髷が結われるのに対して、結婚すると丸髷に変わるので、オペラ「蝶々夫人」を日本の風俗に忠実に演ずる場合は（長崎の芸者だったヒロインが冒頭で結婚するため）途中で髪形を変えねばならずカツラを二種類用意することがある。
English: Today young girls' hairstyles such as shimada-mage, momoware (literally, split peach; female hair style in kimono that the bun is split and a red fabric woven in the center) and so on can be often seen at the weddings, programs of dance performances by students, Jidai Gyoretsu (a procession of people in historical costumes) in festivals and so on, but married women's hairstyles such as marumage, sakko, ryowa and so on are seldom to be seen except for in Kabuki (traditional performing art), Bunraku (Japanese puppet theater) and period dramas.
Japanese: 現代においては島田髷、桃割れ、等、娘の髪型は結婚式や舞踊発表会、祭りの時代行列等で見る機会が多いが、丸髷や先笄、両輪等の既婚女性の髪型は歌舞伎や文楽、時代劇以外では見る機会が少ない。
English: July 14: Ofudamaki (to strew the paper charm) event (Totsuka Ward, Yokohama City) (in which men dress up as women and the caller of dance songs wears marumage wig)
Japanese: 7月14日：お札まき（横浜市戸塚区）(男性が女装、音頭取り役が丸髷の鬘を被る)
English: Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property refers to intangible folk culture which people have created in their daily lives and passed on to subsequent generations, such as manners and customs, folk performing arts, occupations, religious faiths, folk techniques related to clothing, food and housing, and festivals, and which have been designated as especially important by the national government.
Japanese: 重要無形民俗文化財（じゅうようむけいみんぞくぶんかざい）は、衣食住、生業、信仰、年中行事などに関する風俗慣習、民俗芸能、民俗技術など、人々が日常生活の中で生み出し継承してきた無形の民俗文化財のうち、特に重要なものとして国が指定したものである。
English: This system of designation was established with the revision of the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties in 1975, and since the first round of designations held on May 4, 1976 approved 30 properties, the number of designated properties has increased to a total of 264 as of March 11, 2009.
Japanese: この指定制度は、1975年の文化財保護法の改正によって実現し、1976年5月4日に第1回として30件が指定されて以来、2009年3月11日現在で、合計264件が指定されている。
English: The Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties provides that intangible folk cultural properties are 'manners and customs related to food, clothing and housing, to occupations, religious faiths, festivals, etc., to folk entertainments, arts and crafts and techniques which are indispensable for the understanding of changes in our people's modes of life.'
Japanese: 文化財保護法では無形の民俗文化財を、「衣食住、生業、信仰、年中行事等に関する風俗慣習、民俗芸能、民俗技術で、わが国の国民の生活の推移の理解のため欠くことのできないもの」と規定している。
English: Such properties have been called 'intangible folklore materials' in the past and have been studied as 'folk traditions' in the field of folklore.
Japanese: これは、これまで「無形の民俗資料」といわれてきたものであり、民俗学が「民間伝承」として学問の対象としてきたものである。
English: This designation system was introduced in part because of the increasing belief that traditional culture passed down from generation to generation by ordinary people is to be protected, but mostly due to awareness that well-established 'folk traditions' with a long history have been put in danger of disappearing by drastic changes in society in recent years.
Japanese: この指定制度が発足した背景には、平凡な人々のあいだに繰り返されてきた伝承文化が保護の対象になる、という考え方が定着したことにもよるが、昨今の社会の急激な変貌により、営々として長期にわたって継承されてきた「民間伝承」が、今絶滅の危機に瀕しているという問題意識によるところも大きい。
English: With the revision of the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties in 2004, folk techniques were included, in addition to existing manners and customs and folk performing arts.
Japanese: 2004年（平成16年）の文化財保護法改正により、従来の風俗慣習、民俗芸能のほか、新たに民俗技術が加えられた。
English: Following this revision, the 'Japanese-style boat building technique of Tsugaru-kaikyo Strait and surrounding areas' (Aomori Prefecture), 'kazusa-bori (traditional Japanese drilling) technique' (Chiba Prefecture), and 'technique for producing yunohana natural bath salts at Beppu Myoban-onsen Hot Spring' (Oita Prefecture) were designated as the first folk techniques.
Japanese: この改正に伴い2006年（平成18年）に、最初の民俗技術として「津軽海峡及び周辺地域における和船製作技術」（青森県）、「上総掘りの技術」（千葉県）、「別府明礬温泉の湯の花製造技術」（大分県）が指定された。
English: Traditional Ainu dance (January 21, 1984; Sapporo City, etc.; Hokkaido Ainu Koshiki Buyo Rengo Hozonkai [Hokkaido Traditional Ainu Dance Preservation Association], etc.)
Japanese: アイヌ古式舞踊（1984年1月21日札幌市ほか　北海道アイヌ古式舞踊連合保存会ほか）
English: Enburi rice planting dance (February 3, 1979; Hachinohe City, etc.; Hachinohe Chiho Enburi Rengo Kyogikai [Hachinohe Council of the Enburi Festival])
Japanese: えんぶり（1979年2月3日八戸市ほか　八戸地方えんぶり連合協議会）
English: Mountain pilgrimage festival at Mt. Iwaki (January 21, 1984; different parts of the Tsugaru region; Oyama Sankei Hozonkai [Association for the Preservation of Processions to the Mountain])
Japanese: 岩木山の登拝行事（1984年1月21日津軽地方各地　お山参詣保存会）
English: Shimokita noh dance (March 20, 1989; Higashidori-mura, Shimokita County, etc.; Shimokita no Nomai Hozonkai Rengokai [Federation of Associations for the Preservation of the Shimokita Noh Dance], etc.)
Japanese: 下北の能舞（1989年3月20日下北郡東通村ほか　下北の能舞保存会連合会ほか）
English: Mountain pilgrimage festival at Mt. Izumi (December 15, 1997; Sannohe-machi, Sannohe-gun; Izumi-yama Nanasaiji Hatsumairi Hozonkai [Association for the Preservation of Seven-Year Old Children's First Visit to Mt. Izumi])
Japanese: 泉山の登拝行事（1997年12月15日　三戸郡三戸町　泉山七歳児初参り保存会）
English: Hachinohe Sansha-taisai Festival (February 16, 2004; Hachinohe City; Hachinohe Sansha Taisai Dashi-matsuri Gyoji Hozonkai [Preservation Association of Hachinohe Sansha Taisai Float Festival])
Japanese: 八戸三社大祭（2004年2月16日八戸市　八戸三社大祭山車祭り行事保存会）
English: Tsugaru-kaikyo Strait and surrounding areas' boat-building technique (March 15, 2006; surrounding areas of Tsugaru-kaikyo Strait; Tsugaru-kaikyo oyobi Shuhen Chiiki ni okeru Wasen Seisaku Gijutsu Hozonkai [Association for the Preservation of Japanese-style Boat Building Techniques in Tsugaru-kaikyo Strait and Surrounding Areas])
Japanese: 津軽海峡及び周辺地域における和船製作技術（2006年3月15日　津軽海峡周辺地域　津軽海峡及び周辺地域における和船製作技術保存会）
English: Motsu-ji Temple Ennen longevity dance (May 17, 1977; Aza Osawa, Hiraizumi-cho, Nishiiwai-gun; Motsu-ji Ennen no Mai Hozonkai [Association for the Preservation of Ennen-no-mai Dance at Motsu-ji Temple])
Japanese: 毛越寺の延年（1977年5月17日　西磐井郡平泉町字大沢　毛越寺延年の舞保存会）
English: Nagai Dainenbutsu kenbai sword dance (January 28, 1980; Morioka City; Nagai Dainenbutsu Kenbai Hozonkai [Nagai Dainenbutsu Kenbai Preservation Association])
Japanese: 永井の大念仏剣舞（1980年1月28日盛岡市　永井大念仏剣舞保存会）
English: Onikenbai demon sword dance (December 13, 1993; Kitakami and Oshu Cities; Onikenbai Rengo Hozonkai [Onikenbai Preservation Joint Association])
Japanese: 鬼剣舞（1993年12月13日　北上市、奥州市　鬼剣舞連合保存会ほか）
English: Murone-jinja Shrine Festival Matsuriba rites (January 12, 1985; Ichinoseki, Ofunato and Kesennuma Cities; Murone-jinja Sai Hozonkai [Murone-jinja Shrine Festival Preservation Association])
Japanese: 室根神社祭のマツリバ行事（1985年1月12日　一関市、大船渡市、気仙沼市　室根神社祭保存会）
English: Akiu Taue-odori rice planting dance (May 4, 1976; Akiu-machi, Taihaku Ward, Sendai City; Akiu no Taue-odori Hozonkai [Akiu Taue-odori Dance Preservation Association], etc.)
Japanese: 秋保の田植踊（1976年5月4日　仙台市太白区秋保町　秋保の田植踊保存会ほか）
English: Yonekawa Mizukaburi water festival (December 27, 2000; Tome City; Yonegawa no Mizukaburi Hozonkai [Association for the Preservation of Mizukaburi in Yonegawa])
Japanese: 米川の水かぶり（2000年12月27日登米市　米川の水かぶり保存会）