Shōtoku Taishi
Shotoku（1925）Explanations of Nō plays: a vade mecum for spectators of Nō plays, Nōgakukai, Tokyo [EN]
- 2The records handed down in the families of the No dance masters state that twelve hundred years ago, prince Shotoku ordered one Hada-no-Kawakatsu to compose the Okinato which the music was handed down in the latter’s family under the name of tau-tau-tarai (flute notes) and also to compose the monomane dance numbering sixty-six pieces.
- 15It is also related that Prince Shotoku ordered one Kawakatsu to make songs and dances to be performed at the Imperial Court.
- xiThese houses were originally engaged in the production of the Sarugaku given at the two Great Shrines of Kasuga at Nara, and Hiyoshi on Mount Hiei near Kyoto, and the tradition in the house of Komparu is that they were descended from an official appointed by Prince Shotoku (d. 621), to play the Dengaku which he wrote.