DOI: https://doi.org/10.58874/SAAT.2022.29
Abstract:The Kagura is a specific type of Shinto ritual ceremonial dance and drama offering to the Gods. The Shinto priests act mythological character and play traditional musical instruments on a stage, but the Kagura theatre does not arrange the audience area. I hypothesized that the audience are the Gods enshrined in the main hall and the acoustics is optimized to them. So, I measured impulse responses in the three different types of Kagura theatres and report the acoustical characteristics in the area between the theatre and main hall to identify who is the audience.
Keywords:Kagura ancient theatre, impulse response, absence of audience area, reverberation time
Pages:115-118
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