The ballet is danced to an original score commissioned from the late Japanese composer Toshiro Mayuzumi, which suggests bugaku, the dance portion of a Japanese gugaku performance, but is played on ...

According to legend, travelling performers of bugaku, the ritual dance and music of the imperial palace, visited Hachimantai Town in northern Japan in the early eighth century, during the ...

School students in western Japan have marked Children's Day with a vivid dance born centuries ago ... to preserve the traditional performing art, "bugaku." Local elementary and junior high ...