太鼓: 514 Terms and Phrases

• 太鼓
• drum
• Taiko
• Daiko
• Side drum
• a drum
• Drums

• お太鼓
• very common way of tying a woman's kimono sash

• 太鼓鼻
• Taikobana

• 太鼓森
• Taikomori

• 太鼓矢
• Taikoya

• 太鼓沢
• Taikozawa

• 太鼓山
• Taikoyama
• Mt. Taiko

• 出太鼓
• Dedaiko

• 太鼓岳
• Taikodake

• 和太鼓
• Japanese drum
• Wadaiko (Japanese drum)
• Wadaiko drum
• Taiko

• 櫓太鼓
• drums which announce the opening of a stage performance or commencement of bouts
• the sound produced by such drums

• 陣太鼓
• war drum

• 触太鼓
• drumming in the streets to announce a tournament
• announcing an event by walking around in the streets beating a drum
• drum used to announce an event by walking around in the streets

• 小太鼓
• small drum

• 御太鼓
• very common way of tying a woman's kimono sash

• 太鼓橋
• arched bridge
• Taikobashi

• 太鼓焼
• Japanese muffin containing bean jam, served hot

• 大太鼓
• large or bass drum

• 太鼓腹
• potbelly
• paunch

• 太鼓判
• large seal
• large stamp
• seal of approval
• guarantee
• endorsement
• hallmark

• 太鼓台
• very large float used to carry taiko at festivals
• Taikodai
• Sashiage for Taikodai

• 太鼓打
• Laccotrephes japonensis (species of water scorpion)

• 太鼓虫
• dragonfly naiad (nymph)

• 太鼓方
• side drumer
• Taiko-kata (drum player)
• The schools for drum performers

• 桶太鼓
• Japanese tub drums

• 締太鼓
• Japanese tight drums

• 組太鼓
• United Japanese drums

• 太鼓楼
• Taikoro-tower

• 太鼓物
• Taikomono (music of Noh with a taiko, a drum)

• 太鼓沢川
• Taikozawagawa

• 鬼太鼓座
• Ondekoza

• 大太鼓橋
• Oodaikobashi

• 触れ太鼓
• drumming in the streets to announce a tournament
• announcing an event by walking around in the streets beating a drum
• drum used to announce an event by walking around in the streets

• 攻め太鼓
• drum used in ancient warfare to signal an attack

• 太鼓持ち
• professional jester
• professional entertainer
• comedian
• buffoon
• flatterer
• sycophant
• brown-noser

• 寄せ太鼓
• drums sounded in the morning to draw the crowds to a match

• 一番太鼓
• beating of a drum as a signal to announce the opening (beginning) of an event (theatrical performance, festival, etc.)

• 締め太鼓
• small high-pitched Japanese drum or taiko with its head pulled taut by ropes

• 跳ね太鼓
• drumming at the end of the day of wrestling inviting spectators to return tomorrow

• 太鼓焼き
• Japanese muffin containing bean jam, served hot

• 太鼓内訳
• drumming style used to announce bouts

• 太鼓の例
• Examples of Japanese drums

• 団扇太鼓
• Uchiwa-daiko (prayer drum)
• Fan drum

• 太鼓・貝
• Drums and shells

• 太鼓の音
• the sound of a drum

• 太鼓ばち爪
• clubbed nail

• 御太鼓結び
• very common way of tying a woman's kimono sash

• 太鼓の種類
• Types of Japanese drums

• 太鼓の達人
• Taiko no Tatsujin

• 松浦の太鼓
• Matsu-ura no Taiko (The drum in Matsura)

• お太鼓結び
• very common way of tying a woman's kimono sash

• ブリキの太鼓
• The Tin Drum

• でんでん太鼓
• Dendendaiko
• Pellet drum

• 太鼓岩不動尊
• Taikoiwafudouson

• 旭川太鼓連盟
• Japanese Drums Union of Asahikawa

• 打ち出し太鼓
• drum signalling end of a performance

• 太鼓判を押す
• to give the stamp of approval
• vouch for

• 城郭の太鼓櫓
• Taiko Yagura in Castles

• 太鼓　威徳流
• Side drum: Itoku Style

• 太鼓　観世流
• Side drum: Kanze Style

• 太鼓を打つ音
• the sound made by beating a drum

• 太鼓（たいこ）
• Taiko

• 太鼓を載せる台
• A stand on which a taiko is placed.

• 太鼓谷稲成神社
• Taikodaniinari Shrine

• 鉦や太鼓で捜す
• look for someone with every possible means

• 太鼓のとどろき
• roll of a drum

• だ太鼓縁　一対
• A pair of Da-drum edges

• モホークの太鼓
• Drums Along the Mohawk

• 太鼓判を押す。
• He gave me his stamp of approval.

• 『松浦の太鼓』
• 'Matsuura no Taiko'

• 太鼓台（曳き山）
• Taikodai (hikiyama)

• 太鼓 (たいこ)
• Taiko

• 太鼓台（舁き山）
• Taikodai (kakiyama)

• 太鼓の短い連続音
• ruffle

• 太鼓腹を表す俗語
• slang for a paunch

• 太鼓踊　9月3日
• Taiko-odori Festival (drumming and dancing festival): held on September 3

• 長胴太鼓・宮太鼓
• Long trunk Japanese drum, imperial Japanese drum

• 和太鼓（わだいこ）
• Wa-daiko

• 日本の太鼓の総称。
• Generic name of Japanese drums.

• 参考記事松浦の太鼓
• References on Matsuura no Taiko

• 山鹿流陣太鼓と装束
• Yamaga style Jin-Daiko and costume

• ブリキの太鼓#映画
• The Tin Drum (film)

• 和太鼓、鼓（つづみ）
• Wadaiko drum, and Tsuzumi (hand drum)

• 重要文化財「だ太鼓」
• Important Cultural Property - 'Dadaiko' (decorated drum)

• 彼は太鼓の音を聞いた
• he heard the beat of a drum

• 軍楽隊や太鼓隊の隊長
• the leader of a marching band or drum corps

• 太鼓の音が聞こえる。
• I hear the drum.

• 太鼓-朝長の「懺法」
• Taiko (drum): Tomonaga's 'Senbo' (Penitence)

• 和太鼓に関する主な行事
• Events related to Japanese drums

• 締太鼓（しめ だいこ）
• Shime-daiko

• 芸能、音楽としての太鼓
• Japanese drums as public entertainment and music

• 太鼓方も舞台には出る。
• Otsuzumi-kata also appears on the stage.

• シテ方と太鼓方がある。
• There are schools for the shite (a Noh protagonist) and for the drummers.

• 地元小学生による太鼓演奏
• Drum performance by the local elementary school pupils.

• 太鼓奏者は一人（ソロ）。
• Only one drummer for the Japanese drum performance (solo)

• 『松浦之太鼓』とも書く。
• It is written in '松浦之太鼓.'

• 和太鼓／パーカッション。
• Wadaiko drums/ Percussion.

• 太鼓の達人の登場人物一覧
• Characters of Taiko no Tatsujin

• 太鼓の上にぴんと張った膜
• a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum

• 太鼓中之舞よりやや軽快。
• This mai is danced more lightly than the Chu no mai accompanied on dai-sho hand drums.

• 複式複打法（組太鼓）作品。
• Play for multiple drum, multiple drummer technique (united Japanese drums)

• 団扇太鼓（うちわ だいこ）
• Uchiwa-daiko

• とたんに陣太鼓がひびいた。
• Then drums beat.

• 太鼓の音は遠のいていった。
• The drum faded away.

• 創作和太鼓と服装・化粧の関係
• Relationship between creative Japanese drums and costumes and make-up

• 据置形　御諏訪太鼓（長野県）
• For Sueoki-gata: Osuwa Japanese Drum (Nagano Prefecture)

• 台輪(太鼓台の基部)から担ぐ
• Lifting it up from its architrave (the bottom of Taikodai);

• 太鼓櫓 八木町の安楽寺に移築
• The taiko yagura (drum turret): was moved to Anraku-ji Temple in Yagi-cho

• 太鼓門、および、続櫓（1棟）
• Taiko-mon and tsuzuki yagura (a wall tower of a Japanese castle which was usually only a single story in height, which functioned as a connecting tower or gallery running along the top of the ishigaki, from which the defenders protected the walls), (one structure).

• 少年がその太鼓を叩いていた。
• A boy was beating the drum.

• 大地主さんも太鼓判をおした。
• declared the squire.

• かならず太鼓入りに限られる。
• This mai is always accompanied jointly on drums.

• 彼が一緒に河原で太鼓を叩いた。
• He played the drums at the riverside with me/them.

• 太鼓　金春流、金春三郎右衛門流
• Side drum: Komparu Style and Komparu Saburoemon School

• 酒井の太鼓（さかいの たいこ）
• Sakai no Taiko

• 締太鼓、桶太鼓、宮太鼓がある。
• There are shime-daiko (tight drums), oke-daiko (tub drums), and mya-daiko (imperial drums).

• 据置形　芝居の曲打太鼓（沖縄県）
• Sueoki-gata (the style with the drum placed on the floor): Kyokuuchi Japanese drum (Okinawa Prefecture)

• 抱持形　太鼓踊、念仏踊り、田植踊
• Kakaemochi-gata (the style of holding or carrying): taiko-odori (Japanese drum dancing), nembutsu-odori (praying to Amida Buddha and dancing), taue-odori (dancing for planting crops)

• 太鼓山、権現山(伊根町)、蝙蝠岳
• Mt. Taiko, Mt. Gongen (Ine-cho), Komori-dake (Mt. Komori)

• 太鼓がいつも勝利のしるしなんだ」
• it is always their sign of victory.'

• 彼らは太鼓をずっとたたき続けた。
• They had been thumping the drum all along.

• 囃子方-小鼓7、大鼓1、太鼓16
• hayashi-kata, kotsuzumi: 7, otsuzumi: 1, taiko: 16

• 松浦の太鼓（まつうらの たいこ）
• Matsura no Taiko (The drum in Matsura)

• 打楽器編成の一部に和太鼓を使う作品
• It is a piece with part of the percussion instrument composition using the Japanese drum.

• 福島県の太鼓台　破風屋根の曳き山。
• The taikodai in Fukushima Prefecture is the hikiyama with a gable roof.

• 主に内部には太鼓が設置されている。
• Normally a drum is set inside the tower.

• 9月：和太鼓フェスタ（大阪府豊中市）
• September: Wadaiko Festa (Japanese Drum Festival) (Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture)

• 舁山形や曳山形には太鼓台などがある。
• For katugiyama-gata or hikiyama-gata, there is a drum stand used.

• 鼓楼の2階には石碑、鐘、太鼓がある。
• There is a stone monument, a bell and a drum on the second floor of the Drum Tower.

• 太鼓という場合広狭二つの理解がある。
• In the case of the Japanese drum, there are both a wide and a narrow understanding (interpretation).

• 三ノ鼓、和太鼓、大鉦鼓、篳篥、高麗笛
• Santsuzumi drum, Wadaiko drum, Oshoko drum, Hichiriki instrument, Komabue flute

• 羯鼓、和太鼓、大鉦鼓、笙、篳篥、龍笛
• Kakko drum, Wadaiko drum, Oshoko drum, Sho flute, Hichiriki instrument, Ryuteki flute

• 本願寺玄関、浪之間、虎之間、太鼓之間
• Genkan (entrance), Naminoma (literally, room of wave), Toranoma (literally, room of tiger) and Taikonoma (literally, room of large drum) of Hongan-ji Temple

• 玄関、浪之間、虎之間、太鼓之間 1棟
• Entrance hall, Nami-no-Ma (Wave Room), Tora-no-Ma (Tiger Room), Taiko-no-Ma (Drum Room) (single structure)

• タンバリンに似た小型の手でたたく太鼓
• small hand drum similar to a tambourine

• 単式単打法・・・一種の太鼓を一人で演奏
• single drum, single drummer technique - one type of drum is struck by one drummer.

• 複式単打法・・・多種の太鼓を一人で演奏
• multiple drums, single drummer technique - various types of drums are struck by one drummer.

• 円形の枠に1枚の膜を張った太鼓である。
• This is a drum with a membrane mounted on a circular frame.

• 神道では古くから太鼓が多く用いられた。
• Japanese drums have been used in Shinto from ancient times.

• 和太鼓（わだいこ）は、打楽器のひとつ。
• Wadaiko (Japanese drum) is one of the percussion instruments.

• 泉州地域では太鼓・鉦・笛などを用いる。
• In the Senshu region, drums, sho (bells or gongs) and Japanese flutes are used.

• シテ方、小鼓方、大鼓方、太鼓方がある。
• It consists of shite-kata (main roles), kotsuzumi-kata (small hand drum player) and taiko-kata (drum player).

• それぞれ組太鼓作品で、鬼太鼓座が初演。
• These are pieces for the Japanese drum, performed by ZA ONDEKOZA for the first time.

• 日本太鼓講習会：毎年数回、全国各地で開催
• The Nippon Taiko Training Class: held several times at various places nationwide every year.

• 単式複打法・・・一種の太鼓を多人数で演奏
• single drum multiple drummer technique - one type of drum is struck by many drummers.

• 和太鼓としてはこの種類が大多数をしめる。
• As a Japanese drum, this type comprises the majority.

• 太鼓（たいこ）が鳴るのは遊廓に相違ない。
• Where the sound of the drum is heard must be the tenderloin.

• 十八番に『火焔太鼓』、『唐茄子屋』など。
• His specialties include 'Kaen Daiko' (Big Drum) and 'Tonasuya' (The Pumpkin Vendor).

• 子太鼓は、親太鼓よりも２回り以上小さい。
• Kodaiko is less than a quarter of the size of Oyadaiko.

• ８月：和太鼓サウンド夢の森（滋賀県甲賀市）
• August: Sound of Japanese Drums, Forest of Dreams (Koga City, Shiga Prefecture)

• 太鼓楼（たいころう）などとも呼ばれている。
• Drum towers are also called taiko-ro in Japanese.

• 小兵にもかかわらず、太鼓腹で怪力であった。
• He was small but had a potbelly and was very strong.

• 券を太鼓の形をした回転箱から引き出す富くじ
• a lottery in which tickets are drawn from a revolving drum

• 高麗笛、篳篥、三鼓、鉦鼓、太鼓が使われる。
• Komagaku uses komabue (a transverse flute with six finger holes), hichiriki (an oboe), san-no-tsuzumi (an hourglass-shaped drum), shoko (a small gong) and taiko (an ornately decorated drum).

• (お太鼓の部分の幅は何れも鯨８寸となる。）
• (the width of the portion of otaiko is hassun, measured by kujirajaku (a measure used in kimono-making), for both types.)

• 使用する楽器は神楽笛、篳篥、筝、太鼓である。
• Musical instruments used are: kagurabue flute, hichiriki (double reed Japanese flute), koto (Japanese harp), and taiko (Japanese drum).

• 9月上旬：神恩感謝日本太鼓祭（三重県伊勢市）
• Early September: Shinon Kansha Nihon Taiko-matsuri Festival (Japanese Drum Festival for thanksgiving to the gods' blessings) (Ise City, Mie Prefecture)

• 10月下旬：和太鼓フェスティバル（四街道市）
• Late October: Wadaiko Festival (Japanese Drum Festival) (Yotsukaido City)

• 太鼓と「口説き」と呼ばれる唄に合わせて踊る。
• People dance to the drumbeat and the lyrics, which are called 'kudoki.'

• 8月上旬：霊山太鼓祭り（伊達市 (福島県)）
• Early August: Ryozen Japanese Drum Festival (Date City, Fukushima Prefecture)

• 複数のアマチュア和太鼓集団が参加する各種行事
• Various events in which two or more amateur Japanese drum groups participate

• 「この太鼓の音を聞くことは、二度とねぇやな」
• 'You will never hear the tom-tom again,'

• その親太鼓を叩くバチは、カシ、ヒノキが多い。
• The stick to hit the oyadaiko is often made from oak and Japanese cypress.

• 河内地域では大太鼓・小太鼓・鉦などを用いる。
• In the Kawachi Region, large drums, small drums and sho are used.

• 下田市の太鼓台　下田太鼓の車輪つきの太鼓台。
• The taikodai in Shimoda City is wheeled, placing a Shimoda-daiko.

• 同じく女装した男性が太鼓を打ち叩き浮かれ踊る。
• Also men wearing female clothing beat the drum and dances.

• 太鼓台（たいこだい）とは、下記のとおりである。
• The Japanese word 'taikodai' can be used to refer to either of the following.

• 古来の城や都市にあった太鼓櫓もそれに類似する。
• Taiko yagura (drum towers) in ancient castles and cities are similar to taiko-ro towers.

• しかし、太鼓櫓という場合は、簡易なものも含む。
• However, taiko yagura includes the ones with simple structures.

• 太鼓腹に相手を乗せての櫓投げを得意としていた。
• He put his opponent on his potbelly and did a Yaguranage (inner thigh throw), which was his specialty.

• 劇場では七つ時（午前4時）に一番太鼓をいれた。
• The theatre first beat a drum at four in the morning.

• 速い速度で続けて打たれた太鼓（特に小太鼓）の音
• the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously

• 不定期：茨城の太鼓（茨城県内各地で持ち回り開催）
• Held irregularly: Ibaraki-no-Taiko (Japanese Drums of Ibaraki), various groups from Ibaraki Prefecture take turns performing on the stage

• 8月：岡谷太鼓祭り（岡谷市）（2006年は中止）
• August: Okaya Japanese Drum Festival (Okaya City) (stopped in 2006)

• 7月上旬：小倉祇園太鼓（福岡県北九州市小倉北区）
• Early July: Kokura Gion Daiko drum performance (held in Kokurakita Ward, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture)

• 別途料金を支払えば鐘と太鼓を鳴らすことができる。
• You can ring the bell and beat the drum for an additional fee.

• 雅楽では楽太鼓と呼ばれ、舞台の正面に構えられる。
• In court music, the Japanese drums called gaku-daiko (a flat drum beaten by two sticks) are facing the stage.

• 羯鼓、楽太鼓、鉦鼓、笙、篳篥、龍笛、楽琵琶、楽箏
• Kakko drum, Gakudaiko drum, Shoko drum, Sho flute, Hichiriki instrument, Ryuteki flute, Gakubiwa instrument, Gakuso koto

• 和太鼓・ホラガイの他にも梵鐘や銅鑼などを用いた。
• Besides the Japanese taiko drums and conch shells, bonsho (temple bells) and gongs were used.

• 「インディアン達が勝ったら、太鼓をうちならすよ。
• 'If the redskins have won,' he said, 'they will beat the tom-tom;

• 親太鼓は、ビヤ樽型でケヤキの彫りぬき胴体をもつ。
• Oyadaiko, which is a beer keg shape, has a body carved from a zelkova tree.

• ときには太鼓の鋲の部分を打つ（叩く）こともある。
• They sometimes hit the tack part of the drum.

• 大太鼓（おお だいこ）、祭太鼓（まつり だいこ）
• O-daiko, Matsuri-daiko

• 鼓楼 - 鐘楼と対称位置に建ち、階上に太鼓を置く。
• Drum tower: Stands on a site symmetrical to the Belfry and has a drum suspended in the upper part.

• その形態によって小鼓、大鼓、太鼓、羯鼓などがある。
• They are divided into Kotsuzumi, Otsuzumi, Taiko (stick drum), and Kakko Drum by shape.

• 太鼓なしの囃子を三拍子、太鼓を含むと四拍子と呼ぶ。
• Noh music accompaniment without the side drum is called 'triple time music (Sanbyoshi),' while Noh music accompaniment with the side drum is called 'quadruple time music (Yonbyoshi).'

• 以下では狭義の太鼓としての和太鼓に限定して述べる。
• The Japanese drum as a drum in the narrow sense only will be described as follows;

• 曳山形　小倉祇園太鼓（福岡県）、秩父夜祭り（埼玉県）
• Hikiyama-gata (the style of shouldering and carrying Japanese drum): Kokura Gion Japanese Drum (Fukuoka Prefecture), Chichibu-yomatsuri Night Festival (Saitama Prefecture)

• 太鼓の代わりに鐘を釣るせば鐘櫓（かねやぐら）である。
• If a bell is used instead of a drum, it was called kane yagura.

• 雷公（雷の太鼓つり） ※　：「雷神姿かたち」を参照。
• Rai-ko (Duke Thunder) (the god of thunder trying to catch a drum) * see also 'Raijin sugata katachi.'

• 側面に金属製の円盤がついた、片側に皮を張った浅い太鼓
• a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides

• 雄は高いピッチの持続低音を作る太鼓のような器官を持つ
• male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone

• すももケーキをあげる人もいて太鼓で街からたたき出す」
• Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them out of town.'

• でもアリスがこたえるより先に、太鼓が鳴り出しました。
• But before Alice could answer him, the drums began.

• 性格はおのおの中之舞・楽に準じ、太鼓入りで奏される。
• Their features correspond to those of Chu no mai and Raku, respectively, and they are danced with drums as accompaniment.

• 和太鼓、鉦、鐘、篳篥、横笛、ホラガイがこれに相当する。
• Such instruments include the Wadaiko (Japanese drums), Sho (gong), Kane (cymbals and bells), Hichiriki (Japanese traditional recorders), Yokobue (Japanese flutes) and Horagai (trumpet shells).

• これらの和太鼓集団は固定ファンを獲得したところも多い。
• A lot of these Japanese drum groups secure their loyal admirers in this way.

• 近年までは、時刻を知らせる為にも太鼓が使用されていた。
• Until recent years, the drum had been used to announce the time.

• 『松浦の太鼓』（まつうらの たいこ）は、歌舞伎の演目。
• 'Matsu-ura no Taiko' (The drum of Matsu-ura) a play of kabuki.

• また、太鼓楼などが橿原市指定の文化財に指定されている。
• Taikoro (drum tower) and other buildings are also designated as cultural properties by Kashihara City.

• 五大とは伏見、笠間、祐徳、竹駒、そして太鼓谷といわれる
• The other four include Fushimi, Kasama, Yutoku, and Takekoma.

• お太鼓を結び上げた状態では遠目には袋帯と区別しにくい。
• When it is fastened in otaiko knot (drum knot), it is hardly distinguished from the fukuro obi (double-woven obi) from a distance.

• 太鼓方観世流（一名・観世左吉流）は観世座座付の太鼓方。
• Taiko-kata Kanze-ryu (another name, Sakichi KANZE-ryu) is taiko-kata working in Kanze-za.

• 摂津地域では、親太鼓・雄鉦・雌鉦・子太鼓などを用いる。
• In the Settsu Region, oyadaiko (parent drum), osho (male gong), mesho (female gong) and kodaiko (child drum) are used.

• 11月中旬：日本太鼓ジュニアコンクール東京大会（品川区）
• Mid November: Nippon Taiko Junior Contest in Tokyo (Japanese Drum Contest for Young People in Tokyo) (Shinagawa Ward)

• 主に香川県西部～愛媛県東部の秋季大祭で使用される太鼓台。
• The chose is a taikodai used for the autumn grand festival in the area of western Kagawa prefecture to eastern Ehime Prefecture.

• 総重量は１ｔ程度までで他地域の太鼓台と比べ総じて小ぶり。
• The senzairaku is generally smaller in size than that of other areas, with gross weights of less than 1t.

• カツ丼専門店「祭太鼓」（大阪市）のメニューの一つにある。
• It is one of the dishes served by 'Matsuridaiko,' a restaurant specializing in katsudon (in Osaka City).

• 皮は胴に鋲を用いて留められている（鋲打太鼓）ことが多い。
• In many cases, the hide is fixed onto the trunk with tacks (tack-fixed Japanese drum).

• 後者は、団扇太鼓等が該当し、日蓮宗等で用いることがある。
• The latter type includes the round fan drum, and is used by the Nichiren sect.

• 壁上には軍中の法度書を掲げ、また太鼓、銅鑼などを掛けた。
• A document of hatto (law, ban) was attached on the wall, and a drum and a gong were also placed on the wall.

• 鉦や太鼓で探しあてた割には、あいつ期待はずれだったよな。
• He turned out to be a real disappointment after we went through hell and high water to find him.

• 序がより荘厳に変化した真之序之舞（太鼓入りのみ）もある。
• In Shin no jo no mai (always accompanied on drums), the jo becomes more stately.

• 特に十五世観世元規は明治期を代表する太鼓方として名高い。
• Especially Motomori KANZE, the 15th, was famed as the taiko-kata in Meiji era.

• 神事での太鼓、謝肉祭での笛や鐘、太鼓などはその例である。
• Examples of the power of sound include the drums used during Shinto rituals and the flutes, bells, and drums used during carnivals.

• 据置形　福迅木太鼓踊（熊本県）、明神囃子（福井県）、盆踊り
• Sueoki-gata (the style with the drum placed on the floor): Fukujinki taiko-odori (Fukujinki Japanese Drum Dancing, Kumamoto Prefecture), Myojin-bayashi (Myojin Accompaniment, Fukui Prefecture), Bon Festival Dance

• （見世物小屋や相撲、祭りの太鼓櫓・火の見櫓などの物見櫓等）
• (such as drum turrets seen at a show tent, a sumo performance, and a festival, and watchtowers including a fire watchtower.)

• おどろく其角らを尻目に太鼓の数を数える侯の顔は喜びに輝く。
• 侯's face beamed with joy counting the number of drums, not caring about Kikaku and Onui, who were amazed,

• 2枚の皮をもち、下の方の皮に響線が張りわたされた小さい太鼓
• a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head

• 地方によっては、太鼓台や布団太鼓などをこう呼ぶ場合もある。
• In some local communities, danjiri refers to taikodai (a festival float in which a drum is fit inside) and futon-daiko (a big taikodai).

• 内部に太鼓が積まれており、太鼓に合わせて音頭をとって担ぐ。
• A drum is placed inside the taikodai, which is carried by participants in the parade who call in unison with the drum beat.

• また、神輿に太鼓を結びつけ、その太鼓のみを打つ場合もある。
• Also, the drum is closely linked with Mikoshi portable festival shrines and is in some cases the only drum used.

• 昔ながらの、生太鼓、生三味線、生音頭取りで踊るところもある。
• In some areas, the folk song for the dance is performed with a live drum, a live shamisen (three-string Japanese banjo) and a live caller, just as it was in the past.

• この後、清めの太鼓として、呼び出し連が土俵を3周して終わる。
• Then, several yobidashi walk around the dohyo three times as Kiyome no taiko.

• 幇間は別名「太鼓持ち（たいこもち）」、「男芸者」などと言う。
• Hokan is also called 'taikomochi' (professional jester, professional entertainer, comedian, buffoon), or 'otoko geisha' (male geisha).

• 歴史で述べるように世界に太鼓主体の音楽が生まれてこなかった。
• Historically, in the whole world except Japan, the drum was not born as the main constituent in music.

• 形は蒲鉾型、ラグビーボール型、球型、星型、太鼓型などがある。
• There are some different shapes for company logo indicating lamps, hog-backed, rugby-ball shaped, round, star-shaped, drum-shaped, etc.

• 僧侶たちが一列に並び、単調な太鼓を鳴らしながら進んでいった。
• Priests were passing in processions, beating their dreary tambourines;

• 初世以来観世流の芸系に属し、金春流の太鼓とはまったく異なる。
• It has belonged to the methods and style of the Kanze school since the founder, and is completely different from the drums of the Konparu school.

• 中村鴈治郎 (初代)のお家芸、『松浦の太鼓』とほぼ同じ設定。
• It is a specialty of Ganjiro NAKAMURA (the first), and its content is almost the same as that of 'Matsuura no Taiko' (The Drum in Matsuura).

• 伊福部昭：『日本の太鼓「ジャコモコ・ジャンコ」』（1984年）
• Isao MATSUSHITA: 'Drumming of Japan JAKOMOKO JANKO' (1984)

• 仮面をつけた演者が、鉦、太鼓、笛の囃子に合わせ、無言で演じる。
• The performers wear masks during the performance and have no spoken parts, and are accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble including a gong, a drum, and a Japanese flute (the ensemble is called a 'hayashi').
• Performers wear masks and perform to a musical accompaniment played using gongs, drums and flutes without saying a word.

• 社寺、公共施設等によくあり、多くの太鼓の団体がこれを演奏する。
• This is often found in temples, shrines or communal facilities, and many drum organizations perform with this.

• スメーはすでに太鼓を見つけていて、今はその上に座っていました。
• Now Smee had found the tom-tom, and was at that moment sitting on it.

• 地車囃子は、親太鼓、雄鉦・雌鉦、子太鼓の４人一組で演奏される。
• Danjiri-bayashi is played by a group consisting of four players who play oyadaiko, two gongs called male gong and female gong and kodaiko (a small drum).

• 太鼓は、いわゆる締太鼓のことで、構造は基本的に鼓とかわらない。
• The side drum, or the so-called 'tight side drum,' has basically the same structure as the hand drum.

• 舁き山の太鼓台は、瀬戸内海沿岸を中心に西日本一帯で多く見られる。
• The taikodai in the kakiyama type can often be seen in western Japan, especially in the coast area of the Seto Inland Sea.

• 中世に入ると、田楽などの発達などによって、お囃子太鼓が隆盛した。
• Entering the Medieval Period, with the development of dengaku (ritual field music), the Japanese drum for musical accompaniment became popular.

• 太鼓は獅子や鬼など超自然的威力のあるシテが現れる際に用いられる。
• The side drum (taiko) is used in the scene when a protagonist (shite) with supernatural powers, such as a liondog or demon appears.

• 小鼓、大鼓、太鼓はこれを演奏する場合には掛け声をかけながら打つ。
• Small hand drums, big drums and side drums are struck while shouting a cheer.

• 太鼓の音で兵隊達が奮い立つように、その音は私の怒りを煽るのです。
• It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.

• 勢いづいた三味線や太鼓の音が近所から、彼の一人の心に響いて来た。
• The sounds of lively shamisen guitars and taiko drums from the neighborhood beat against his solitary heart.

• 打楽器：太鼓　小鼓（しょうこ）　雲鑼（うんら）　壇板（だんばん）
• The percussion instruments were the Taiko, Shoko, Unra and Danban.

• 楽太鼓（がく たいこ）、大太鼓（だだいこ）、釣太鼓（つりだいこ）
• Gaku-daiko, Da-daiko, Tsuri-daiko

• 和太鼓は、一般的に非常に残響が良く響き、余韻が残る音を特徴とする。
• Generally, a Japanese drum is characterized by a very distinct reverberation and a lingering sound.

• 飛田課長が、太鼓判を押した企画書ならクライアントも一発ＯＫだろう。
• When Tobita gives a plan his seal of approval, the client accepts it at first glance.

• この後、清めの太鼓として、呼び出し連が土俵を3周して式典が終わる。
• After that, yobidashiren (sumo ushers who call the names of wrestlers, sweep a dohyo, and so on) walk around the dohyo three times while beating a drum as a purification ceremony before the finish of the rite.

• 据置形　御陣乗太鼓（石川県）、八丈太鼓（東京都）、鼓囃子（沖縄県）
• Sueoki-gata (the style with the drum placed on the floor): Gojinjo-daiko (Japanese Drum Formation, Ishikawa Prefecture), Hachijo-daiko (Tokyo metropolitan area), Tsuzumi-bayashi (drum accompaniment, Okinawa Prefecture).

• 太鼓は拍子を取るのに用いられるが、太鼓が無い場合は笏拍子を用いる。
• Drums are typically used to keep other instruments in time; if a drum is not available, shaku byoshi (clappers) can be used instead.

• 福島県や静岡県下田市、愛媛県西条市において曳き山の太鼓台が見られる。
• The taikodai in the hikiyama type is seen in Hukushima Prefecture, Shimoda City in Shizuoka Prefecture, and Saijo City in Ehime Prefecture.

• 水墨画の好画題とされ、大きな袋を背負った太鼓腹の僧侶の姿で描かれる。
• He is a popular subject of Suibokuga (art painted with Japanese black ink) and expressed, in suibokuga, commonly as a paunchy Buddhist monk with a large bag on his back.

• （ページ上部の写真の奥の鼓面が見えている太鼓の右側がこれにあたる。)
• (It is to the right side of the Japanese drum surface that can be seen in the background of the photograph in the upper part of the page.)

• 実際には赤穂浪士は合図の笛と鐘は用意したが、太鼓は持っていなかった。
• In reality, Ako Roshi brought a whistle for a signal but did not have a drum.

• 「・・・うぬが力の自慢顔、あかずの門をば腹太鼓、雷門の落ちるよな。」
• You look proud of your strength, treat an akazu-no-mon (gate that cannot be opened) as a haradaiko (patting on a paunch like a drum) and expect the Kaminari-mon (Thunder Gate) to fall.'

• 短く鋭い音の連続（太鼓をたたいたりドアをノックしたりして出るような）
• a series of short sharp taps (as made by strokes on a drum or knocks on a door)

• 人気のない夜の山奥から笛や太鼓などの神楽囃子の音が聞こえるともいう。
• It is also said that sound of 'kagurabayashi' (a musical sound of flute and drums) is heard from the deep mountains where no one is living.

• この時、歌舞伎では前述の大太鼓の音が「どんでんどんでん」と鳴り響く。
• At this moment in the Kabuki play, the large drum mentioned above beats 'Donden-donden.'

• 太鼓方金春又右衛門流は、惣右衛門家の分家として活動した太鼓方の流儀。
• The Konparu Mataemon-ryu, Konparu Mataemon school was a method of drum performance by a branch of Soemon family.

• 室町時代の初めには、太鼓などをたたいて踊るようになったといわれている。
• It is said that people started dancing to the drumbeat at the beginning of the Muromachi period.

• 石井真木：日本太鼓とオーケストラのための『モノプリズム』（1976年）
• Maki ISHI: 'Mono-prism' for the Japanese drum and orchestra (1976)

• 和太鼓（膜鳴楽器）や銅鑼（体鳴楽器）などの打楽器を演奏する際に用いる。
• Bachi are used to play percussion instruments such as Wadaiko drums (membranophone) or dora (gongs) (idiophone).

• 二番太鼓を打ち上げて「翁渡し」（式三番）を舞い、脇狂言、本狂言となる。
• With the second beating of the drum, 'Okinawatashi' ('shikisanban' or ceremonial dancing) was performed, followed by 'waki kyogen' (an auspicious play) and 'hon kyogen' (a main program of kyogen).

• 右手が自由に小太鼓を打つ間、左手で演奏される小さなフィップル・フルート
• a small fipple flute that is played with the left hand while the right hand is free to beat a tabor

• 現在、境内には本堂のほか、欅造の山門、太鼓楼、本堂裏に蓮如墓所がある。
• At present, the grounds house a sanmon gate (temple gate) made of Keyaki (zelkova), a Taikoro tower, as well as the main hall, behind which the Rennyo's grave is located.

• 遊廓（ゆうかく）で鳴らす太鼓（たいこ）が手に取るように聞（きこ）える。
• The drum playing in the tenderloin reached our ears distinctively.

• 太鼓を始めるように命令を伝えてまいれ」と王さまはボウシャに申しました。
• `go and order the drums to begin.'

• 狂言の働事には、大小物の「舞働」と「責メ」、太鼓物の「カケリ」がある。
• There are 'maibataraki' and 'seme' (a play of Enma, a devil or Oni, an ogre accusing a sinner to the hell) in Daishomono and 'kakeri' in Taikomono in Hataraki-goto for Kyogen.

• 複式複打法・・・多種の太鼓を多人数で演奏（俗に「組太鼓」とも呼ばれる）
• multiple drums, multiple drummers technique - various types of drums are struck by many drummers, commonly called 'Kumidaiko' (united Japanese drums).

• 松下功：和太鼓とオーケストラのための協奏曲『飛天遊』（1993-94年）
• Isao MATSUSHITA: 'Hi-Ten Yu' a concerto for the Japanese drum and orchestra (1993 - 1994)

• 岡山県南西部の秋祭りに繰り出す太鼓台は千歳楽（せんざいらく）と呼ばれる。
• The taikodai carried in parades of the autumn festivals in the southwestern area of Okayama Prefecture is called 'senzairaku.'

• 1人が1匹を担当し、それぞれが腹にくくりつけられた太鼓を打ちながら舞う。
• In the Furyu school, one person performs one lion, and each person does the dance beating the drum tied to its belly.

• 特に打掛などに、紅葉、火炎太鼓、鳥兜を扱ったものは紅葉賀模様と称される。
• In particular, patterns incorporating fall leaves, drums and torikabuto are called Momiji no Ga (the autumn excursion) patterns and are found on uchikake (long outer robe).

• 日本でも、太鼓楼として寺院や神社などの宗教施設敷地内に見ることができる。
• Also in Japan, drum towers referred to as taiko-ro tower can be seen inside religious institutions such as temples and shrines.

• 撥（バチ）で叩くものを太鼓と呼び、手で叩くものは鼓（つづみ）と呼ばれる。
• A drum beaten with a drumstick is called 'taiko' (Japanese drum) and a drum beaten by the hands is called 'tsuzumi' (a hand drum).

• 楽節の終わりごとに太鼓の一撃が入り、楽曲全体を統率する重要な要素である。
• One stroke of the Japanese drum sounds whenever the scene is ended, so it is an important element that leads the entire music.

• そのあと、早舞の太鼓にのり早足でさっさと花道を退場することになっている。
• After that Mitsuhide exits quickly through the hanamichi (passage through the audience) to the rhythm of an up-tempo drum roll.

• これらのなかで、もっとも自由な演奏（音楽表現）ができるのは親太鼓である。
• Oyadaiko have the most freedom (of musical expression) of these instruments.

• 前者は宮太鼓、桶胴太鼓などで、音量が大きく低音がよく響くのが特徴である。
• The former type includes the imperial drum and the tub drum, and is characterized by loud volume and low pitched sound.

• 舁山形　つがいだんじり（兵庫県）、天神祭催太鼓（大阪府）、古川祭（岐阜県）
• Katugiyama-gata (the style of carrying on a pedestal): Tsugai-danjiri (Hyogo Prefecture), Tenjin-sai Festival Moyoshi-daiko (Osaka Prefecture), Furukawa-matsuri Festival (Gifu Prefecture)

• 「羽衣」のような太鼓入りと「江口」「井筒 (能)」のような大小物とがある。
• There are mai accompanied on drums such as 'Hagoromo' (Celestial Feather Robe), and dai-sho mono such as 'Eguchi' (literally, Mouth-of-Sound) and 'Izutsu' (The Well Head).

• このようなことから、太鼓台に女性が触れることを禁忌とする（した）地方も多い。
• For this reason, in many regions women are (were) restrained by the religious taboo from touching a taikodai.

• 古来は、提灯に蝋燭を灯し、団扇太鼓を叩きながら、参詣する簡素なものであった。
• Originally, it was a simple event in which participants worshipped hoisting chochin with a candle lighted and beating uchiwa-daiko.

• 木津三社祭り（木津町指定文化財（無形民俗）の登録名称は「木津布団太鼓台祭」）
• Kizu Sansha Matsuri Festival : Its registered name as the designated cultural asset of Kizu-cho (the intangible folk custom) is 'Kizu Futon Daikodai Matsuri Festival.'

• 太鼓谷稲成神社（島根県津和野町） - むしろ、当社は五大稲荷を名乗っている。
• Taikodani Inari-jinja Shrine (Tsuwano City, Shimane Prefecture): this shrine claims to be one of the five major Inari shrines (or temples).

• 5月中旬：太鼓フェスティバル＠神田祭（千代田区）（隔年開催、次回は2007年）
• Mid May: Japanese Drum Festival at Kanda Festival (Chiyoda District) (held every other year, next time is 2007)

• そのほかに、特殊な役割のある櫓、代表的なものでは太鼓櫓（たいこやぐら）がある。
• In addition, some yaguras might have a specific role, such as taiko (drum) yagura.

• 1重目を通常の櫓と同じように造り、2重目は窓を大きくし、太鼓が吊るしてあった。
• The first storey was made in the same way as a normal turret and the second storey had large windows and a hanging drum.

• シテの後に能囃子方（向かって右から、笛、小鼓、大鼓、太鼓）、後見が座っている。
• Behind the protagonist (Shite) is a traditional Noh musicians (facing from the right are a whistle, a small drum, a big drum, and a side base drum) and prompters are sitting.

• 親太鼓の演奏では、バチを回転させるなどアクロバティックな動きをさせる人もいる。
• In the performance with oyadaiko, some players make acrobatic movements such as spinning around the sticks.

• この太鼓台という名称には、練り歩く際に太鼓の存在がどれほど重要かが現れている。
• The name of taikodai shows how important the presence of drum in festival parades is.

• 越前萬歳と加賀萬歳はすり太鼓（小太鼓を細い竹の撥で擦るように鳴らす）を用いる。
• In Echizen manzai and Kaga manzai, a 'suri-daiko' (making a sound by scraping a kozutsumi with a thin bamboo plectrum) is used.

• 舁山形　室津太鼓御輿（兵庫県）、徳山太鼓御輿（山口県）、阿蘇御田植祭（熊本県）
• Katugiyama-gata (the style of carrying on a pedestal): Murotsu taiko-mikoshi (Murotsu Japanese Drum Portable Shrine, Hyogo Prefecture), Tokuyama taiko-mikoshi (Tokuyama Japanese Drum Portable Shrine, Yamaguchi Prefecture), Aso ondaue-matsuri (Aso Crop Planting Festival, Kumamoto Prefecture)

• 伊福部昭：『倭太鼓とオーケストラのためのロンド・イン・ブーレスク』（1983年）
• Akira IFUKUBE: 'Rond in Burlesque for Wa-daiko and Band' (1983)

• 同じ作曲者の作品に日本太鼓のための『モノクローム』・『モノクロームII』もある。
• Among pieces from the same composer, there are also 'Monochrome' and 'Monochrome II' for the Japanese drum.

• 図像に描かれるような太鼓腹の姿で、寺に住む訳でもなく、処処を泊まり歩いたという。
• It is said that paunchy Hotei having an appearance similar to that of suibokuga did not live in a Buddhist temple, but roved.

• 太鼓のような音を出す沿岸の浅瀬海域や淡水産の小型から中型の水底にすむ食用・釣用魚
• small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

• 「太鼓だ、インディアンが勝ったんだ！」悪党たちはピーターのさけぶ声を聞きました。
• 'The tom-tom,' the miscreants heard Peter cry; 'an Indian victory!'

• 太鼓物の通例として、シテの役柄はことごとく人間ではない「異類のもの」に限られる。
• As a general rule, the shite's role is limited to only ones of not human being but 'nonhuman being,' an unearthly things.

• これを「謡（うたい）もの」と呼び、「屋島」「虫の音」「富士太鼓」などが有名である。
• These are called 'utaimonno,' and pieces such as 'Yashima,' 'Mushi no Ne' (Sound of Insects) and 'Fuji Daiko' (Fuji Drum) are well known.

• 佐藤三昭：『流転織成』和太鼓、津軽三味線、ガムランによるアンサンブル（2006年）
• Mitsuaki SATO: 'Ruten-shokusei' (Flux weaves) (2006) is an ensemble of Japanese drums, Tsugaru-jamisen (three-stringed Japanese banjo of Tsugaru), and gamelan.

• 備前國分の邑久市牛窓にも同形態の太鼓台が存在するが牛窓での呼称は「どんでんどん」。
• The taikodai in the same style is also used in Ushimado, Oku City in Bizen-Kokubun, but called 'dondendon.'

• 楽は「鶴亀」「邯鄲」など唐人のシテが舞楽を模して舞うもので、大小物と太鼓物がある。
• In Raku, the shite, an actor representing a person of Tang China, for example in 'Tsuru-kame' (The Crane and the Tortoise) and 'Kantan' (The Pillow of Kantan, Noh play), dances imitating bugaku (traditional Japanese court music accompanied by dancing), accompanied by dai-sho (big and small) hand drums or drums.

• 「鳴神の鼓の時も至れば、五穀豊穣も国土を守護し」と謡いつつ勇壮な働事太鼓物をする。
• The god plays Taikomono (music of Noh with Taiko, a drum) valiantly singing 'When the time of Narukami arrives, gokokuhojo (bumper crop of cereals) protects the land.'

• 特に、和太鼓を用いた創作曲を演奏するグループにおいて、篠笛が盛んに用いられている。
• Shinobue are often played by groups that play original music using Japanese drums.

• 太鼓の奏法である複式複打法を用いる演奏形態（組太鼓形式）を祭囃子と呼ぶ地域もある。
• In some regions the performance style of playing Japanese 'taiko' drums from both sides is included as part of Matsuribayashi.

• 楽太鼓または和太鼓（鼉太鼓、だだいこ）、鉦鼓または大鉦鼓、羯鼓（鞨鼓）または三ノ鼓
• Gakudaiko drum or Wadaiko drum (Dadaiko), Shoko drum or Oshoko drum, Kakko drum or Santsuzumi drum

• 市立宮津小学校裏に馬場先御門の太鼓門を残す他は城の存在自体言われなければ気づかない。
• The only thing that remains to show that the castle existed on the site at all is the Taiko-mon (a gate that housed a drum) of Babasaki-gomon gate to the rear of municipal Miyazu Elementary School.

• しかし通常和太鼓と呼ばれる場合は、筒あるいは椀型のものに皮を張った狭義の理解をする。
• However in general, when called a Japanese drum, it is understood in the narrow sense to be a bowl-shaped or cylindrical, truck mounted with a skin.

• 撥は2本で、太鼓を台に載せて床に置き（この台を左吉台という）、正座した体の前で打つ。
• There are 2 plectra and the side drum is mounted on a stand (called hidarikichidai) put on the floor and the side drum is struck in front of the body sitting upright.

• 獅子は「石橋 (能)」「望月」「内外詣」の三番にのみかぎられる太鼓入りの舞事である。
• Shishi is the mai-goto specific to the three programs of 'Shakkyo (in Noh)' (Stone bridge, Noh Play), 'Mochizuki' (The Full Moon) and 'Uchito mode' (The Pilgrimage), and is always danced with drums as the accompaniment.

• 三段四節、鼓はノリ拍子、笛はアシライを吹き、太鼓はイノリ地と呼ぶ特殊な手組みを打つ。
• It is made up of three acts and four melody parts and the tsuzumi player plays noribyoshi, the fue player, Ashirai, and taiko player, special tegumi (the rhythmic patterns of sound combinations of instrument and human voice) called inori-ji.

• 11月中旬：東京の太鼓『撥の響演』（東京都内各地で持ち回り開催）/主催東京都太鼓連盟
• Mid November: Tokyo-no-Taiko (Japanese Drums in Tokyo) 'Bachi-no-Kyoen' (Resonance performance by drumsticks) (various groups in Tokyo take their turn to perform on stage)/sponsored by Tokyo Taiko Foundation

• 太鼓以外にも多くの日本の打楽器が登場する作品だが、第2楽章は太鼓ソロ（単式単打法）。
• Besides the Japanese drum, it is a work with a lot of percussion instruments of Japan, however the second movement is a Japanese drum solo (single drum, single drummer technique).

• 前者を「太鼓もの（太鼓入りもの、四拍子もの）」、後者を「大小もの」と呼んで区別する。
• To distinguish the 2 types of scenes, the former is called 'side drum scene (Otuzumimono or Otuzumiirimono)' or 'four-beat-rhythm (Yonbyoshimono or Shibyoshimono)', while the latter is called 'big-and-small-drum scene (Daishomono)'.

• 戦国時代になると、戦国大名達が、自軍の統率をとるために太鼓を利用した、陣太鼓が興る。
• During the Sengoku Period (Period of Warring States), daimyos (warring lords) used drums called jin-daiko (a battle drum) to lead their armies to battle.

• 曳山形　津軽情っ張太鼓（青森県）、近江八幡大太鼓（滋賀県）、中之条鳥追太鼓（群馬県）
• Hikiyama-gata (the style of shouldering and carrying a Japanese drum): Tsugaru Joppari-daiko (Aomori Prefecture), Omihachiman odaiko (Shiga Prefecture), Nakanojo Torioi-daiko (Gunma Prefecture)

• 巫女舞の場合に巫女装束となる少女の巫女、太鼓台の「乗り子」も稚児と呼ばれる場合がある。
• A girl who wears the costume of a shrine maiden in the miko dance, and 'noriko' (literally children on something) on the drum stage are sometimes called chigo too.

• 「囃子方」の中には更に「笛方」「小鼓方」「大鼓方」「太鼓方」の4種類の技能集団がある。
• Hayashikata' includes the following four types of technical groups: 'Fuekata' (flute player), 'Kotsuzumikata' (shoulder-drum player), 'Otsuzumikata' (hip-drum player), and 'Taikokata' (stick-drum player).

• 下座音楽における太鼓の使用方法は、打ち方によって表現する情景が高度に体系化されている。
• The use of the Japanese drum in the theatre music is highly systematized in accordance with the way of striking to express different scenes.

• 早舞は五段からなるが現在では三段に略されることが一般的で、かならず太鼓入りに限られる。
• Haya mai, which was originally composed of five sections but now is generally condensed to three sections, should be always accompanied on drums.

• 笛は黄鐘調が基本であるが、替として初段前に盤渉調に転調する盤渉楽（太鼓物のみ）もある。
• The fue is basically played in the Oshiki-cho scale, but there is also Banshiki-raku in which, as a replacement, the scale is changed to Banshiki-cho before the initial section is played (always accompanied by drums).

• 出だしの親太鼓は皮の中ばかりを打ち（叩き）、途中から皮と木のフチを同時に打つ（叩く）。
• Oyadaiko players start off by hitting only the drum skin, and then hit the drum skin and the wood frame at the same time from the middle.

• 鉦と同じリズムの子太鼓演奏をする流派が多いが、鉦のフチ打ちと同じ演奏をする流派もある。
• Many schools play kodaiko in the same rhythms as beating the gongs but some schools play kodaiko in the same rhythms as beating the frame of gongs.

• 和太鼓の楽曲は、古くからの楽曲を元に復元したものや、近現代に新たに作曲されたものがある。
• As for the music for a Japanese drum performance, while some are based upon ancient music, there is also newly composed music in recent years.

• また、大阪市内のカツ丼屋には、「喝鈍」「祭太鼓」など、この「別れ」を標準とする店も多い。
• In many katsudon restaurants in Osaka City such as 'Katsudon' and 'Matsuridaiko,' it is treated as a standard.

• 俳諧をよくして俳人宝井其角と交流があり、これをもととして「松浦の太鼓」の外伝が作られた。
• He excelled at Haikai (humorous renga poetry) and mixed with Kikaku TAKARAI, a haiku poet, on the basis of which the side story of 'Matsura no Taiko' (The drum in Matsura) was produced.

• 猩々乱は太鼓入りで、調子の緩急が激しく、流れ足などの特殊な型を用いるところに特色がある。
• Shojo Midare is danced accompanied by drums, and its features are that the tempo suddenly changes from a fast one to a slow one or from a slow one to a fast one, and a special dance style of nagare-ashi (making the legs slip) is used.

• 地車囃子という音楽において、もっとも即興性が許されるゆえに親太鼓の演奏は花形でもあった。
• The performance of oyadaiko was a feature because it is the element of danjiri-bayashi most open to improvisation.

• 太鼓方金春流（一名・惣右衛門流）は、金春禅竹の伯父金春豊氏（?～1458年）を流祖とする。
• The founder of the Konparu School for drum performers (also known as the Soemon-ryu school) was Toyouji KONPARU (? - 1458), the uncle of Zenchiku KONPARU.

• 音楽家たちは中に入り、ドラや太鼓や笛、ボーンズ、タンバリン、大太鼓を大音響で鳴らしていた。
• The musicians took up a position inside, and were vigorously performing on their gongs, tam-tams, flutes, bones, tambourines and immense drums.

• 太鼓は雅楽用の物（釣太鼓）を用いるのが主とされるが、一般的な太鼓でも差し支えないとされる。
• The drum most often used is the tsuridaiko, a drum that hangs in a frame and is used in gagaku, but standard drums are also acceptable.

• 2006年に和太鼓創作曲100曲を越え今も尚発表を続け、それらの演奏団体は５０団体を越える。
• By 2006, there were already more than 100 creative Japanese drum pieces, and new ones are being announced continuously, with more than 50 groups playing them.

• ２回、スメーは太鼓を打ち鳴らし、叩く手を止めると、舌なめずりをするように聞き耳をたてました。
• Twice Smee beat upon the instrument, and then stopped to listen gleefully.

• また、地車のない地車囃子のみの地域でも、「鉦・子太鼓、踊りがなおざり」などと嘆く古老もある。
• Also in areas which don't possess danjiri and perform danijri-bayashi without them, some older people complain 'the performance with the sho (a kind of gong) and kodaiko and the dance are neglected.'

• 歴史上、このことは太鼓を主体化するという革新的事実（芸能、音楽としての太鼓）に貢献している。
• This general phenomenon, however, has proved in history by (the Japanese drum in performing arts and in music) centralizing the Japanese drum as the main constituent.

• 笏拍子、又は楽太鼓（一般の和太鼓もok）、和琴、又は楽箏（生田流等の箏もok）、篳篥、神楽笛
• Shaku byoshi drum or Gakudaiko drum (general Wadaiko drum is also ok), Wagon koto or Gakuso koto (the So instrument of Ikutaryu or other schools is ok), Hichiriki instrument, Kagurabue flute

• 「昼夜宴をなし、横笛、太鼓、舞を業とし永夜を短しとす。秦の始皇、唐の玄宗の驕りもこれに過ぎず」
• She held parties day and night, played Yokobue (the flute) and drums, danced traditional Japanese dance, and made a long night short. Even the first Qin Emperor and Genso during the Tang dynasty were not so haughty.'

• 門を叩き壊す音が『仮名手本忠臣蔵』で陣太鼓を打ち鳴らす音に変わったのではないかといわれている。
• It is assumed that the noise of breaking the gate was changed to the noise of banging the jin-daiko in 'Kanadehon Chushingura.'

• この像は日本で著名な半跏思惟形の弥勒菩薩像とは全く異なり、太鼓腹の布袋像として表わされている。
• This statue is completely different from the statue of Maitreya sitting contemplatively in the half-lotus position that is well-known in Japan and instead presents the form of a potbellied Hotei.

• 現在でも宮崎県小林市にはこの泗川での戦勝を記念して「輪太鼓踊」という舞踊が今に伝えられている。
• There is a dance called 'Wadaiko-odori Dance' passed down in Kobayashi City, Miyazaki Prefecture, praising the victory at Shisen.

• 演奏には、親太鼓（大太鼓）、雄鉦・雌鉦（鐘）（二丁鉦）、子太鼓（小太鼓）（トコテン）を用いる。
• For the performance, oyadaiko (a kind of large Japanese drum), 雄鉦 and 雌鉦 (a kind of gong) (also called nichogane) and kodaiko (small drum) (also called tokoten) are used.

• 『與話情浮名横櫛』（切られ与三）、『新臺いろは書始』（松浦の太鼓）、『東山櫻荘子』（佐倉義民伝）
• 'Yowa-nasake Ukina-no Yokogushi' (Kirare Yosa), 'Shin-butai Iroha-no Kakizome' (Matsuura-no Taiko), 'Higashiyama Sakura Soshi' (Sakura Gimin-den, or Legend of Loyal Subjects in Sakura)

• 大太鼓を「親」と呼ぶのは、この４人一組の中心で、かつ指揮者の役割も果たさねばならないからである。
• The big drum is called 'oya' (parent) because the oyadaiko player is the center of this four-person group and has to play the role of conductor.

• 本格的な劇場・舞台では、それに「笛(能管・篠笛)」「小鼓」「大鼓」「締太鼓」を加えることが多い。
• In full-fledged performances in theaters or on stage, fue (Nohkan flutes, shinobue), kotsuzumi (shoulder drums), otsuzumi (hip drums) and shime-daiko drums are often played in addition to shamisen.

• 三味線と「お囃子」（前述の4種の楽器）だけでなく、さらに大太鼓や鉦、銅鑼なども加えて演奏される。
• Odaiko (large drums), bells and dora (gongs) are played together with Shamisen and ohayashi (the four instruments described earlier).

• 効果音では、太鼓を使った水辺を表す音や鉦による寺院の鐘の音など、楽器を使ってさまざまな効果を表す。
• They create various sound effects with their instruments, for example, a sound effect of water with a drum, or a sound effect of a temple bell using a gong.

• 踊念仏（おどりねんぶつ）とは、太鼓・鉦（かね）などを打ち鳴らし、踊りながら念仏・和讃を唱えること。
• Odori Nenbutsu is to recite Buddhist invocation and songs, dancing while beating a drum or ringing a bell.

• 上手より笛（ふえ）、小鼓（こつづみ）、大鼓（大革）（おおつづみ、おおかわ）、太鼓（たいこ）と並ぶ。
• From the right stage seen from the audience, flute (fue), small hand drum (kotsuzumi), large drum (large leather) and Japanese side drum (taiko) are arranged in the order respectively.

• 数え年十五才を迎えた男の子は「アガリ」と称し、「アガリ」の子は、祭り行列の後方に位置し太鼓を叩く。
• Boys at the age of 15 in the traditional way of counting age are called 'agari' who stand at the back of the procession and beat a drum.

• マブ女王の宮殿の広場ではドンドンと太鼓が打ち鳴らされ、それは王宮の警備員が召集されたしるしでした。
• and from the grounds of Queen Mab's palace came the rubadub of drums, showing that the royal guard had been called out.

• アリスはひざをついて耳を手で覆い、すさまじい太鼓の轟音をなんとか閉め出そうとしますが、むだでした。
• before she dropped to her knees, and put her hands over her ears, vainly trying to shut out the dreadful uproar.

• 能楽では、アシライと称して、稽古や申合せの際に、小鼓・大鼓・太鼓を扇拍子で間に合わせることがある。
• In Nohgaku, Ogi byoshi is sometimes used as a substitute for Kotsuzumi (shoulder drum), Otsuzumi (hip drum) and Taiko (stick drum) for practice or moshiawase (run-through rehearsal), which is called Ashirai.

• （上方では、これらの仕事（のうち太鼓・鳴物以外）は「お茶子」と呼ばれる寄席従業員によって行われる。
• (In the Kamigata area, this work (except for the drum and musical instruments) are done by employees of yose called 'ochako.'

• お囃子奏者は「下座」あるいは「ヘタリ」とも呼ばれ、三味線奏者と太鼓・笛などの鳴物奏者で構成される。
• Rakugo musicians are called 'geza' (off-stage) or 'hetari' (a warm-up), consisting of players of shamisen and 'narimono' such as drums and flutes.

• 太鼓の演奏形態は、太鼓の種類による分類と打ち手の人数による分類を合わせたものが最もよく用いられる。
• The performance style of the Japanese drum is often classified according to the type of drum and the number of drummers.

• 創作和太鼓集団の多くは祭りの太鼓からの派生なので、ほとんどの場合、祭りと共通する服装・化粧となる。
• Since many creative Japanese drum groups are derived from the Japanese drum of some festival, it's natural that they wear common costumes and make-up resembling those in the festival.

• 子太鼓を叩くバチは、親太鼓のものの少し小さいものであるが、竹を平たく削ったバチを用いる流派もある。
• The stick to hit the kodaiko is a little bit smaller than the one for oyadaiko, and some schools use sticks with flatly shaved bamboo.

• 祭りで太鼓が二本の撥を用いて叩かれてるのを見て、これを剣術に用いるという天啓を得、二刀流を発案した。
• At a festival, he saw performers beating taiko (Japanese big drum) with two bachi (drumsticks), suddenly he hit on an idea adapting the performers' style for a style of sword fighting, since then, he developed Nito-ryu.

• 漏刻博士の管理の下で漏刻を測り、毎時ごとに鳴り物（太鼓、鐘）を打ち鳴らして時報を知らせる実務担当者。
• Persons responsible for reading the water clock under the supervision of the master of the clock and announcing the time by using instruments (drums and bells) on the hour.

• あたり一面、太鼓の音でいっぱいで、それがアリスの頭の中になりひびいて、ほかに何も聞こえない感じです。
• the air seemed full of it, and it rang through and through her head till she felt quite deafened.

• また、「四助」というのは祭囃子で他の4人（締太鼓2、大太鼓1、笛1）を助けることからきているという。
• Also 'yosuke' (literally means to help the four) came from the fact that it helps other four members [two 'shime-daiko' (drums), an odaiko (large drum) and a 'fue' (Japanese flute)] in matsuri-bayashi.

• 火の見櫓、芝居小屋（劇場）の太鼓櫓など、また建物以外の物の構造や将棋の技などについては櫓を参照のこと。
• Refer to yagura for hinomi-yagura turret, taiko yagura (drum turret) of a playhouse (theater), non-architectural yagura, shogi (Japanese chess) technique, etc.

• 太鼓櫓（たいこやぐら）は寺院の鼓楼と同じ役割を持つ建物で、常時は日の出と日暮れの開門の時刻を知らせた。
• The taiko yagura was a building which had the same role as a drum tower in a temple and which normally announced the time of gate openings at sunrise and sunset.

• 御座楽は荘重で優雅な雅楽であり、路次楽もチャルメラや太鼓などによる荘厳な鼓吹楽(こすいがく)であった。
• Uzagaku was a solemn and refined form of Gagagu (traditional Japanese court music), whereas Rujigaku utilized instruments such as the charamela (a shawm-like double reed wind instrument) and taiko (large drum) for impressive and inspirational musical effect.

• ところが、上記の講習会に参加した者たちの多くが魅せられたのは親太鼓の派手なバチ(撥)さばきにであった。
• However, it was the showy drumstick-work of oyadaiko that fascinated many young people who participated in the training session above.

• 現在は、御諏訪太鼓宗家・小口大八によって考案・確立された複式複打法（組太鼓）が演奏の主流となっている。
• Nowadays, the multiple drums, multiple drummers technique (united Japanese drums) designed and established by the Osuwa Japanese Drum originator Daihachi OGUCHI is the main stream performance.

• 舞姫は、ヴィオルが演奏され、小太鼓が鳴り響くなかで、軽やかに、かつ完全なるしとやかさをもって踊っていた。
• but with perfect modesty, to the sound of viols and the clanging of tambourines.

• 和太鼓や鉦などの打楽器と共に用いられ、「祭囃子」「神楽」「獅子舞」の「主旋律」(メロディー)を担当する。
• These flutes are combined with percussion instruments such as a Japanese drums or bells, and are used to play the melody in 'matsuri-bayashi' (Japanese music), 'kagura' (sacred music and dancing performed at shrines), and 'shishimai' (lion dance).

• 囃子方が向かって右から笛、小鼓、大鼓、太鼓の順で坐るために、おのおのの部分を笛座、小鼓座といったりもする。
• Fue, Kotsuzumi, Otsuzumi, and Taiko of Hayashikata sit in this order from the right side, so the seats are sometimes called 'Fueza' (flute players' seat) and 'Kotsuzumiza' (shoulder drum players' seat), respectively.

• 西日本では太鼓台の乗り子が稚児と同様の厚化粧(地方によっては歌舞伎の隈取りと同様の化粧)をする場合が多い。
• In Western Japan, noriko (riding kids) of taiko-dai (floats to carry drums on) often wear atsugesho similar to chigo (in some regions, the makeup is similar to kumadori of Kabuki).

• 日本音楽史上、一般民衆が楽器を手にするのは、神楽の笛、太鼓、鈴を除けば、三味線を待たなければならなかった。
• In Japanese music history, common people never had any musical instruments, except for fue (Japanese flute), drum, and bell in kagura (sacred music and dancing performed at shrines), until the appearance of the shamisen.

• また、寄席や芝居において、待ち時間や休憩時間が終わる際に演奏されるものも「しゃぎり（＝二番太鼓）」である。
• Also, at yose (vaudeville theater) and theaters, it is 'Shagiri (niban daiko [literally, the second drum])' too that is played when the waiting time and break time are over.

• 11月23日（祝）：東京多摩太鼓祭り（東京都多摩地区内各地で持ち回り開催）/主催東京多摩太鼓祭り運営理事会
• November 23 (national holiday): Tokyo Tama Taiko-matsuri Festival (various groups in Tokyo take their turn to perform on stage)/sponsored by the steering board of directors for Tokyo Tama Taiko-matsuri Festival

• 舞事と同じく、能管、小鼓、大鼓、太鼓（太鼓は入るものと入らないものがある）の四種の楽器が囃子に用いられる。
• Similar to mai-goto (instrumental dances), hayashi (musical accompaniment played on traditional Japanese instruments) for hataraki-goto consists of four kinds of musical instruments: nohkan (Japanese Noh flute), kotsuzumi (small hand drum), otsuzumi (big drum), and taiko (stick drum).

• 大津絵のなかでは雷さまは雲の上から落としてしまった太鼓を鉤で釣り上げようとするなどユーモラスに描かれている。
• In Otsu-e (Otsu paintings, named after the town of Otsu in Shiga Prefecture), Kaminari-sama is depicted in a humorous way; for example, Kaminari-sama trying to hook the drum that he dropped from the cloud is depicted there.

• 課目は三管（笙・篳篥・龍笛）のみで、助奏として鞨鼓・太鼓のみが演奏され、曲目はすべて左方楽（唐楽）であった。
• The subjects were only the three kinds of flutes (sho, hichiriki, ryuteki) and they were played with the accompaniment of only kakko and taiko drums and all the songs were those of sahogaku (togaku).

• 京では後西天皇の御前で『猿若舞』『新発智太鼓』を実子の中村勘治郎（のち中村勘三郎 (2代目)）とともに上演。
• In Kyoto he performed 'Saruwaka mai' and 'Shinpochidaiko' with his biological son, Kanjiro NAKAMURA (later Kanzaburo NAKAMURA, the second) in the presence of Emperor Gosai.

• 祭り行列は、一町内ごとになっていて、先頭から、木を持つ子ども、鐘を鳴らす子ども、太鼓を叩く子どもの順に並ぶ。
• The ceremonial processions are organized by each town, and is led by a child holding a wooden bar followed by a child ringing a bell and then a child beating a drum.

• 初世又右衛門は金春岌蓮の甥で、似我与左衛門に師事し、「又右衛門台」と呼ばれる太鼓の台を考案したことでも有名。
• The founder, Mataemon, was the nephew of Gyuren KONPARU and studied under Yozaemon JIGA, and he was also famous for inventing a stand to put a drum on that was called a 'Mataemon stand.'

• 長野県茅野市にある尖石遺跡では、皮を張って太鼓として使用されていたのではないかと推定される土器も出土している。
• From the remains of Togariishi in Chino City in Nagano Prefecture, earthenware mounted with skin, presumed to be used as a drum, has been excavated.

• このほか仏教と神道の境界が曖昧である農村信仰として、田楽やイタコの口寄せ（交霊）にも太鼓が使われることが多い。
• Besides this, as a farm village belief with the vague boundary between Buddhism and Shintoism, the Japanese drum is also often used in ritual field music (dengaku) and in mouth spiritualism (communication with the spirit) via a Shrine maiden.

• 同年、貝太鼓奉行（軍監）だった権六郎は池田茂政に藩の軍艦・武器購入のため花房義質を長崎に派遣するよう進言した。
• In the same year, Gonrokuro, a shell-drum magistrate (Assistant Deputy General), proposed to Mochimasa IKEDA to dispatch Yoshimoto HANABUSA to Nagasaki for purchasing warships and weapons of the domain.

• 御霊神社・岡田国神社・田中神社の三神社に6基の布団太鼓を宮入する（敬神組、社町、小寺町、西町、義友会、拝神團）
• Six 'Futon Daiko' (peculiar bass drums) are carried into the precincts of Goryo-jinja Shrine, Okadakuni-jinja Shrine, and Tanaka-jinja Shrine by men of Keishin-gumi, Yashiro-cho, Kodera-cho, Nishi-cho, Giyu-kai, or Haishin-dan.

• 愛媛県を代表する祭りとして、新居浜市の太鼓台、西条市のだんじりとともに、各地のイベント等に出場することがある。
• Ushioni sometimes appears in events held across the country as a typical example of the festivals held in Ehime Prefecture, along with Taikodai (a large float used to carry taiko [drums]) of Niihama City and Danjiri (a float with a decorative portable shrine) of Saijo City.

• 太鼓、松明、御輿など祭りに関するすべての物は神が宿ると考えられているので、関係者以外は一切触れることができない。
• It is belived that a deity dwells in all things related to the festival such as drums, pine torches, and portable shrines, so no-one is allowed to touch them except for those involved in the festival.

• ただし、現在の両国国技館では、安全上の観点から、仮設ではなく常設の太鼓櫓が作られ、エレベーターも備えられている。
• However, the current drum turret set up at the Ryogoku Kokugikan Arena is a permanent one, not a temporary one, for security reasons; besides, it has an elevator.

• サルの王様と、廷臣たちは、すっかりその嘘に気をよくして、この、太鼓持ちに、素晴らしい褒美を使わすようにと命じた。
• The Ape and all his court, gratified with the lie, commanded that a handsome present be given to the flatterer.

• 大鼓方金春流は太鼓方金春又右衛門の子三郎右衛門が、大鼓方大倉流五世大蔵源右衛門に師事して一流を立てたものである。
• The Konparu school for drum performers was founded by Saburoemon, the son of the drummer Mataemon KONPARU, after studying under Genemon OKURA, the fifth head of the Okura school.

• 城郭の中で、比較的見晴らしのよい場所に設置され、時を知らせたり戦いの合図を打ち鳴らしたりするための太鼓が置かれた。
• It was built on a relatively vantage point and used to sound a drum for telling the time and signaling a battle.

• 結願の2月14日、ほら貝や太鼓が響く中、松明をもって本堂の周囲を赤・青・緑の鬼が走り回る「だだおし」が行なわれる。
• On February 14 of Kechigan, while the sounds of conch shells and drums resonate, 'Dadaoshi,' where Oni of red, blue and green color with a Taimatsu torch run around the temple, is held.

• また、子太鼓が竹製の細く平たいバチ（もしくはdrumスティックを変形させたバチ）で叩かれるのも、大きな特徴である。
• Also, drumming kodaiko with flat bamboo sticks (or sticks that changed the shape of drum sticks) is quite characteristic of this style.

• 1981年、佐渡の鬼太鼓座メンバーの若さと情熱を描いて「究極のドキュメンタリー」を目指した『ざ・鬼太鼓座』を監督。
• In 1981, aiming to make the 'ultimate documentary,' he directed 'The Ondekoza' which showcased the youth and passion of the members of the Ondekoza drum troupe from Sado, Niigata Prefecture.

• 太鼓台の差し上げは地方ごとの流儀が複数存在するが、最も多いものはやはり神輿と同様に担ぎ棒を高く持ち上げるものである。
• The way of sashiage of Taikodai varies from region to region; the most common way is that carriers lift the pole up high like Mikoshi.

• 現在、現存する太鼓櫓としては、姫路城（平櫓のもの）のものと、掛川城のもの、復元されたものでは広島城のものなどがある。
• Examples of existing taiko yagura include those in Himeji-jo Castle (one-storey turret) and Kakegawa-jo Castle as well as in Hiroshima-jo Castle, which was restored.

• 舁き山車の場合は　担ぐゆえの構造的な軽量さから、次のような派手な動きが多く、また太鼓台の差し上げに通じるものが多い。
• Kakidashi is structurally light so as to be lifted up, and it includes more showy performances as follows, which are also commonly observed features of Sashiage for Taikodai.

• 吉良家の剣客清水一学がその太鼓の音を聞いて「あれぞまさしく山鹿流」と赤穂浪士の討ち入りに気づくのが定番となっている。
• The usual storyline has become an expert swordsman of Kira's family, Ichigaku SHIMIZU, noticing the raid by Ako Roshi when he hears the drum sound and says 'that is the true Yamaga style.'

• 能管、小鼓、大鼓、太鼓によって奏される働事には「舞働」、「打合働」、「イノリ」（祈）、「立廻り」（上記参照）がある。
• In hataraki-goto played with nohkan, kotsuzumi, otsuzumi, and taiko, there are 'maibataraki,' 'uchiai-bataraki' (one scene in which the shite, a main role fighting with the tsure or the waki, a supporting role of maibataraki, dance with hayashi), 'inori' (in scenes in which a monk or Yamabushi, the waki uses magic to fend off an crazed witch, shite, inori, or prayer, refers to the movement in which the witch submits to the prayers of the monk or Yamabushi, a movement of the hayashi), and 'tachimawari' (see above).

• 子守唄の歌詞に「でんでん太鼓に笙の笛」というものがあるが笙は市井の楽器ではないためこれは別のものを指すと考えられる。
• The phrase 'denden-daiko ni sho no fue' (a small toy drum and sho flute) is seen in a lullaby, but this is considered to be a different instrument because sho was not a musical instrument for common people.

• 能においては、囃子に用いる楽器の構成から、笛・小鼓・大鼓から成る大小物と、太鼓の加わる太鼓物に大別することができる。
• Mai-goto in Noh are largely classified into dai-sho mono (a type that uses big and small hand drums), which is accompanied on fue (Japanese flutes), Kotsuzumi (small hand drums) and otsuzumi (big hand drums); and taiko mono (a drum-using type), in which drums are included among the instruments for playing the music.

• この仲間外（はず）れの男は袴だけはつけているが、後鉢巻は倹約して、抜身の代りに、胸へ太鼓（たいこ）を懸（か）けている。
• He was similarly dressed but instead of a drawn sword, he carried a drum hung about his chest.

• 神楽は巫女（「巻絹」）や女体の神（「三輪」）が舞うもので実際の神楽を模してつくられており、かならず太鼓入りで奏される。
• Kagura is danced by a miko (a shrine maiden) (in 'Makiginu' (bolt of silk) or by a goddess (in 'Miwa'), imitating a real kagura dance, and is always accompanied by drums.

• その一種で「梅鉢（うめばち）」と呼ばれるものは、中心から放射線状に配置した花弁が太鼓の撥に似ていることに由来している。
• One type of crest called Umebachi was inspired by the spiral pattern of petals which resembles drumsticks (bachi in Japanese).

• 伝統的には、やぐらの上の太鼓方、音頭取りならびに踊り子は浴衣を着用することが多いが、一般参加者はカジュアルな平服でも良い。
• In most cases, a drummer and a caller (both on a tower) and dancers conventionally wear yukata (a Japanese summer kimono), but it's okay for general participants to wear ordinary clothes.

• 一般的に神社における祭礼には、神輿（神様の乗り物）をはじめとして山車・太鼓台・だんじりなどの屋台などが出されることが多い。
• Generally, at the rites and festivals held at shrines, large floats used to carry taiko (drums) at festivals such as dashi (float), taiko-dai (dashi including a drum), decorative portable shrine and so on, including mikoshi (portable shrine carried in festivals) (carriage of deity).

• 「三鼓」とは、羯鼓（又は三ノ鼓）、鉦鼓、和太鼓であるが、羯鼓の演奏者が洋楽の指揮者の役割を担い、全体のテンポを決めている。
• The 'Three Drums' refers to the Kakko drum (or Santsuzumi drum), Shoko drum and Wadaiko drum; the player of the Kakko drum takes a role equivalent to a conductor in Western music, deciding the overall tempo.

• 中庸の位で、特に固有の性格というものも持たず、囃子の構成（大小中之舞・太鼓中之舞）や曲趣、役柄によってそれぞれに仕分ける。
• With a moderate tempo and without any particular characteristics, the mai is classified depending on the configuration of hayashi (Chu no mai accompanied on dai-sho (big and small) hand drums or Chu no mai accompanied on drums), on the characteristics of the music or on the performers' character in the Noh play.

• 大小立廻り（『通小町』『百万』）と太鼓入り立廻り（『山姥』）があり、通常は無段または一段二節、鼓はノリ拍子、笛はアシライ。
• There are daisho-tachimaeari ('Kayoi Komachi,' 'Hyakuman' [A Million, a woman who went crazy with grief when she was separated from her child]) and tachimawari with taiko music ('Yamanba' [Mountain Witch]), and they are usually made up of no act and one melody part or one act and two melody parts, and the tsuzumi player plays noribyoshi and the fue player, Ashirai.

• 新居浜型の太鼓台に似た姿だがさらに大型で飾り面も大きく、高さ5m余り、重量2.5t以上、2輪の1.8mの木車により曳かれる。
• The mikoshi-yatai is a taikodai similar to the taikodai of Niihama City in form but more upsized with larger decorated panels, having a height of about 5m, weights of more than 2.5t, and two 1.8m diameter wooden wheels which tow the mikoshi-yatai.

• 楽器について、基本は才蔵が持つ小鼓だけだが、演目によりさらに三味線と胡弓を加えたり、太鼓・三味線・拍子木を使用するものもある。
• Concerning musical instruments, basically there's only a 'kozutsumi' (small hand drum) played by saizo, but according to the repertoire, shamisen and kokyu (Chinese fiddle) are added or sometimes drum, shamisen and clappers are used.

• シテ方観世流三世音阿弥の子・観世与四郎吉国（1440年〜1493年）が、金春流太鼓方の流祖金春豊氏の弟子となって流儀を興した。
• Yoshiro Yoshikuni KANZE (1440-1493), a son of the 3rd shite-kata Kanze-ryu Otoami, apprenticed himself to Harutoyo KONPARU, the founder of Konparu-ryu taiko-kata, and founded the school.

• 岐阜県揖斐郡徳山村 (岐阜県)（現・揖斐川町）では「天狗太鼓」といって、山から太鼓のような音が聞こえると雨の降る前兆だという。
• In Tokuyama Mura, Ibi Gun, Gifu Prefecture (the present Ibigawa Cho), a sound like a drum, called 'Tengu's drum,' heard from the mountain, is considered a sign of impending rain.

• この際、微音で警蹕が行われ（太鼓が入る場合もある）る様子が怪談映画などの「ひゅ～どろどろどろ」といった効果音の原型となっている。
• In this rite, the priest mumbles 'keihitsu,' or sounds of heralding (sometimes with a drum), and this sound is prototype of the onomatopoeia (sound effect) 'hyu-doro-doro-doro,' which is used in Japanese ghost films.

• 太鼓台の屋根にあたる布団部分の四隅には トンボ・まくら・括りと呼ばれる大きな布製の結び飾りがあり、これは雨雲を模したものとされる。
• The large decorative cloth knots, also called tonbo (literally, dragonfly), makura (literally, pillow), and kukuri, model a rain cloud on the four corners of the futon, the roof part of the taikodai.

• 神前や観衆への見せ場（交差点等の広くなった場所）において最も多く行われる練りは、太鼓台を頭上高く持ち上げて舁く「差し上げ」である。
• High points of parades mostly include 'sashiage,' lifting the taikodai up above the head of carriers, before the gods and at other sites (for instance, at the center of intersections) for audience.

• 中世以降、中国では布袋になぞらえた太鼓腹の姿が弥勒仏の姿形として描かれるようになり、寺院の主要な仏堂に安置されるのが通例となった。
• Since the middle period, Miroku bodhisattva has been depicted with a paunchy appearance similar to that of Hotei in pictures and those pictures have been commonly placed in major Buddhist buildings of temples in China.

• 代表作は『与話情浮名横櫛』（切られ与三）、『東山桜荘子』（佐倉義民伝）、『新台いろは書始』（のちに改作されて『松浦の太鼓』）など。
• His masterpieces were: 'Yowanasake Ukinano Yokogushi' (Kirare Yosa [Scarface Yosa]), 'Higashiyama Sakura no soshi' (Sakura Gimin Den [the story of a man of righteousness, Sakura]), 'Shindai Iroha Kakihajime' (later revivsed to 'Matsuura no Taiko' [drum of Matsuura]).

• この男がやがて、いやあ、はああと呑気（のんき）な声を出して、妙な謡（うた）をうたいながら、太鼓をぼこぼん、ぼこぼんと叩（たた）く。
• This fellow drawled out signals the tone of which suggested a mighty easy-life, and then croaking a strange song, he would strike the drum.

• これが、複式複打法（演奏形態）とよばれる、大人数によって様々な種類の太鼓が合奏のように演奏されるようになる組太鼓のはじまりである。
• This so-called multiple drum and multiple beat technique (performing style), is the origin of the united Japanese drums in which a number of people are playing in concert with a variety of Japanese drums.

• 19世紀後半、欧米圏ではジャポニズムの流行とともに、庭石・太鼓橋・灯篭・茶室などを配した日本風の風景式庭園がつくられるようになった。
• In the latter half of the 19th century, Japanese gardens including garden stones, arch bridges, garden lanterns and a tea-ceremony houses were being built in Europe and in America as the Japonism came into style there.

• 演奏は基本的に複数人の唄と三味線で成り立っているが、曲目によっては小鼓、大鼓、太鼓、笛などで構成される「長唄囃子」が付くこともある。
• Performances are basically comprised of multiple persons singing accompanied by the shamisen (a type of string instrument); however, depending on the composition, there are pieces that include accompaniment by various sizes of drums, flutes, and the like.

• スメーが驚いたことに、フックは太鼓を打ち鳴らすよう合図をして、そしてスメーにもその命令の恐ろしいほどのずる賢さがのみこめてきました。
• To his amazement Hook signed him to beat the tom-tom, and slowly there came to Smee an understanding of the dreadful wickedness of the order.

• 複層リズムによるヘテロフォニーや不規則なアクセントによるケチャの影響など、作曲者の初期作品の語法が和太鼓ひとつで見事に再現されている。
• The influence by heterophony of polyrhythm or the influence by kecak of irregular accent, etc., and the grammar of a composer's initial work is splendidly reproduced with just one Japanese drum.

• 少年が太鼓を叩くところがあり、この場合は稚児などのように厚化粧となったり豪華な衣装を着たり、大人に肩車され地面に足を付けない所もある。
• In some cases where a few boys beat the drum in the taikodai, they wear heavy make up, dressed in gorgeous costume like chigo (beautifully dressed children parading at festivals), and given piggyback ride by adults who have their feet untouched on the ground.

• 起源は西日本の太鼓踊りあるいは陣役踊りといわれ、中心にいる数人が頭上のかぶり物を獅子頭に変えたものが始まりだろうという説が優勢である。
• The Furyu school of shishimai is said to have originated from Drum Dance or Imperial Court Guards' Dance, both seen in western Japan, and a predominant theory says Furyu school of shishimai might have began when some star performers changed their headgears into 'shishigashira.'

• 風袋と太鼓をそれぞれ持った風神・雷神像の姿をユーモラスに表したこれらの像は、俵屋宗達の『風神雷神図屏風』のモデルになったともいわれる。
• It is also said that these humorous statues of Fujin with his bag of wind and Raijin with his drums were the inspiration for Sotatsu TAWARAYA's 'Fujin Raijin zu byobu' (folding screen depicting images of Fujin and Raijin).

• シーズン中の鵜飼の安全と繁栄を祈願する神事である鵜飼安全祈願祭が行われた後、太鼓の演奏に見送られて次々と観覧船が川へと漕ぎ出して行く。
• After the ritual praying for the safety and prosperity of ukai during the season is held, spectator boats row out into the river one after another amid the performance of drums.

• これが編み出されるまで、他の芸能の脇役を務めることが多かった和太鼓は、複式複打法の確立により、和太鼓を主体とした音楽の地位を確立する。
• With the accomplishment of multiple drums and multiple beat techniques, the Japanese drum, which had been until this was devised mostly playing a supporting role in other performing arts, established its position in music with itself being the main constituent.

• 講員は揃いの浴衣姿となり、太鼓、鉦、笛を駆使して、万灯供養会の灯明を背景に、主として地歌・長唄等に取材した曲を編曲して舞台上で演奏する。
• Members in the matching yukata (Japanese summer kimono) play musical arrangements consisting of mainly jiuta (a genre of traditional songs with samisen accompaniment) and nagauta (ballads sung to samisen accompaniment), with drums, gongs and flutes, on a stage against the backdrop of the lanterns of Manto Kuyo-e (an event of offering many votive lights to Buddha).

• 1月6日（日）：太鼓祭 in さいたまスーパーアリーナ【さいたまスーパーアリーナ】（さいたま市中央区 (さいたま市)）/主催日本太鼓協会
• January 6 (Sunday): Taiko-matsuri in Saitama Super Arena (Japanese Drum Festival in Saitama Super Arena) (Chuo Ward, Saitama City), sponsored by Japan Taiko Association

• 相撲興行の際に、寄せ太鼓（当日の興行実施を知らせる）やはね太鼓（当日興行の終わりを知らせる）をうつために作られる太鼓櫓もこれに含まれる。
• This type of yagura also includes drum turrets built for yosedaiko (drum beating made on the performance day which announces that the performance is about to begin) and hanedaiko (drum beating made on the performance day which announces that the performance has ended) at a sumo performance.

• 前漢の『史記』天官書を見るとかつての牽牛は牛宿のことであり、現在の牽牛すなわちアルタイルは河鼓（天の川の太鼓）と呼ばれる星座の一星である。
• According to the Tianguan shu of 'Shiki' (the Chinese Historical records), Kengyu at the time was Gyushuku and current Kengyu, namely Altair, is a star belonging to the constellation called Kako (drum of the Milky Way).

• 重の四方おのおのの側面に布団締めと呼ばれる飾りがあり、古い形態の太鼓台では帯または綱などで文字通りこれで布団を束ねる実用的な部品であった。
• There are some ornaments called futonjime on each four side of the ju, ornaments which were practical parts to literally bundle the futon with an obi or a rope for an old type of taikodai.

• 曳き山の山車と舁き山の太鼓台との大きく異なる点は、曳き山が引くという形式であるのに対して、舁き山は神輿と同様に担いて運行されることである。
• The large difference between the hikiyama and the kakiyama is that while the former is pulled, the latter is carried as well as the mikoshi.

• 舞と謡を担当し、実際に演技を行うのがシテ方、ワキ方および狂言方であり、伴奏音楽を担当するのが囃子方（笛方、小鼓方、大鼓方、太鼓方）である。
• Dancing and chanting of the Noh text and in fact performing the art are done by the protagonist (Shite), the Nohwaki and the Noh jester (Kyogenkata), while the accompanied music is performed by musicians (small drum, big drum and side bass drum).

• 「ライオンも一角獣（ユニコーン）も、あの太鼓で街から叩きだされなければ、もうほかにたたきだしようがないでしょうよ！」とアリスは思いました。
• `If THAT doesn't 'drum them out of town,'' she thought to herself, 'nothing ever will!'

• 能楽師には、シテ方、ワキ方、狂言方、囃子方（笛方・小鼓方・大鼓方・太鼓方）の職掌があり、特にワキ方・狂言方・囃子方を総称して三役ともいう。
• Noh actors are divided into shite-kata (main actors), waki-kata (supporting actors), kyogen-kata (farce actors) and hayashi-kata (musicians; further divided into fue-kata [flute players], kotsuzumi-kata [small hand drum players], otsuzumi-kata [large hand drum players] and taiko-kata [drum players]) according to their roles, the last three of which are collectively called the sanyaku (three roles).

• 一年後津村が急逝したが、宝生流宗家宝生九郎知栄、小鼓方幸流三須錦吾、太鼓方観世流観世元規らの指導を受けながら、大鼓方としての活動に精進した。
• Tsumura passed away suddenly one year later, however he devoted himself to his work as a Otsuzumi kata (large hand drum player) while receiving instructions from Kuro Tomoharu HOSHO from the head family of Hosho school, Kingo MISU in Kotsuzumi kata of Ko school, and Motonori KANZE in Taiko-kata Kanze-ryu (the Kanze school for drum performers).

• また、藁人形をつくって悪霊にかたどり、害虫をくくりつけて、鉦や太鼓をたたきながら行列して村境にいき、川などに流すことが行われるところもある。
• In some places, people make a straw man representing an evil spirit, tie harmful insects to it and, ringing bells and banging drums, go in procession to the village border where it is thrown the river.

• 能の囃子（能楽囃子）に用いられる楽器は、笛（能管）、小鼓（こつづみ）、大鼓（おおかわ、大皮とも称する）、太鼓（たいこ、締太鼓）の4種である。
• The musical instruments used by the Noh musicians (Noh gaku-hayashi) have 4 types: flute (Noh pipe), small hand drum (kotsuzumi), big drum (ohkawa, also called 'big skin'), and side drum (taiko).

• 水干・緋袴・白足袋の装いに身を包んだ巫女が太鼓や笛、銅拍子などの囃子にあわせて鈴・扇・笹・榊・幣など依り代となる採物を手にした巫女が舞い踊る。
• The shrine maidens clad in suikan (everyday garments worn by commoners in ancient Japan), hibakama (scarlet Japanese pants for men) and shirotabi (white Japanese socks), and grasping various torimono (hand-held divine items) such as suzu (bells), oogi (folding fans), sasa (dwarf bamboos), sakaki (branches of a kind of divine wood) and nusa (symbols of divinity made of cloth or paper and hung on a stick) that are regarded as yorishiro (objects representative of a divine spirit), perform mikomai dances in harmony with a hayashi (an orchestra of Japanese instruments) that includes drums, flutes, dobyoshi (two circular cymbals made of copper or iron) and other instruments.

• 例えば、雅楽に用いる鳥兜と火炎太鼓に紅葉を添えたものは、源氏物語「紅葉の賀」で主人公が紅葉の下で鳥兜をかぶる優美な舞青海波を舞った場面を表す。
• For instance, the uta-e depicting a torikabuto (a traditional hat worn when playing gagaku (ancient Japanese court dance and music)), a kaendaiko (a large drum decorated with flames), and Japanese maple leaves suggests the scene where the hero of 'Genji Monogatari' performed an elegant dance 'Seigaiha' (Blue Ocean Wave) donning a torikabuto under Japanese maple trees, which appears in the chapter of 'Koyo-no-ga' (An Autumn Excursion).

• 結局、映像で伝える側も観る側も踊りを地車囃子のメインとしてとらえ、一方、演奏する側は親太鼓の派手なバチさばきを地車囃子のメインとしてとらえた。
• In fact, someone who films danjiri-bayashi for broadcast and who watches it perceive the dance as the main attraction of danjiri-bayashi; on the other hand, the people who perform it think that the showy drumstick-work is the feature of danjiri-bayashi.

• 映画やテレビドラマ、演劇では、雪の降りしきる夜、赤穂浪士は袖先に山形模様のそろいの羽織を着込み、内蔵助が「一打三流」の山鹿流陣太鼓を打ち鳴らす。
• In movies, TV series, and theatrical performances, Ako Roshi wears a matching haori (Japanese half-coat) with Yamaga design on underneath, and Kuranosuke bangs the Yamaga style jin-daiko (a battle drum used to order troop movements) in heavy snow.

• 基本的な使い方は、帯を結んだ「お太鼓結び」の背中の部分（お太鼓の垂れで作った輪の下）に通して前へ渡し、帯正面に「駒結び」などの結び方で固く結ぶ。
• The basic method of use is to pass it from the back of a puffed-out bow in the kimono sash (beneath the ring made with the lappet of the bow) toward the front, and then firmly tie a 'komamusubi' knot (a tight knot) or the like at the front.

• 重次は当時名手として有名で、それまで弟子に持たせて打っていた太鼓を置くための台（左吉台と呼ばれる）を考案するなど、太鼓技法に多くの改良を加えた。
• At that time Shigetsugu was famous as a drum player and made many improvements in the techniques of drum playing including devising the stand (Sakichi dai) to put the drum; before the devising of the stand, the drum was held by hands of his disciples.

• ただし、太鼓台と称される担ぎ屋台は一般的に神輿よりはるかに重量があり(数百kg～2t前後)、さすがに神輿のような片手持ちは不可能であることが多い。
• However, Katsugi Yatai (a large float used to carry drums at a festival) called Taikodai is generally heavier than Mikoshi (from several hundred kilograms to nearly 2 tons), so naturally, it is almost impossible to hold it with one hand like Mikoshi.

• 永享2年（1430年）11月、世阿弥の次男で、観世座の太鼓役者であった観世元能が、父がこれまで語った芸談を筆録・整理して、世阿弥に贈ったものである。
• In November, 1430, Motoyoshi KANZE who was the second son of Zeami and taiko yakusha (drum player) at Kanzeza troupe wrote down what had been told by his father and presented it to his father Zeami.

• 翌日、その若者が仲間たちに事情を話してその薮へ行ってみると、海から打ち上げられた蓑、太鼓、割籠などが散らばっており、その中に鼻の欠けた下駄があった。
• The next day, the young man told what had happened to his group and as they went to the thicket, mino (straw raincoat), taiko, and warigo which have been washed ashore from the sea were scattered about, and among them, there was a geta without a strap.

• 日本では俵屋宗達の風神雷神図(屏風)を代表例に、雷さまは鬼の様態で、ウシの角を持ちトラの皮革のふんどしを締め、太鼓（雷鼓）を打ち鳴らす姿が馴染み深い。
• In Japan, as Sotatsu TAWARAYA's Fujin Raijin zu (The Wind and Thunder Gods: a folding screen), a representative example, shows, Kaminari-sama holding a cow's horn, wearing the tiger leather fundoshi, and beating a drum being possessed by the god of thunder is the Raijin's well-known image.

• 櫓は通常、番号、方位を冠して巽（たつみ）・艮（うしとら）・乾（いぬい）櫓などといい、また用途などによって着見・月見・太鼓櫓などと呼ばれるものもあった。
• Turrets were usually named by giving them numbers or directions, such as tatsumi-yagura, ushitora-yagura, and inui-yagura turret, and some turrets were called tsukimi-yagura turret (used for monitoring a castle entrance), tsukimi-yagura turret, taiko yagura (drum turret) and so on according to their use.

• 近くの藪からざわめき声が聞こえるので近寄ると、人間とは異なる声で歌い踊る声が聞こえ、その声は自分たちを「下駄」「蓑」「太鼓」「割籠」などと呼んでいた。
• He heard murmur from a thicket nearby, and as he went closer, he heard the voices of singing and dancing which did not belong to human beings; the voices were calling themselves as 'geta' 'wara' 'taiko' 'warigo' and so on.

• 寄席での、呼び込み太鼓・鳴り物・めくりの出し入れ・色物の道具の用意と回収・マイクのセッティング・茶汲み・着物の管理など楽屋、寄席共に毎日雑用をこなす。
• They perform odd jobs both backstage and at the yose everyday, such as doing the drum signalling at the beginning of a performance, musical instruments, carrying mekuri (title board) in and out, preparing and collecting tools for iromono (various entertainment in the storytellers' theater other than story telling), setting up a microphone, serving tea and managing kimono.

• 何らかの仕方で張った皮を打って音を出すという広義の理解ではアジアの先住民に認められる団扇太鼓（日蓮宗の打つ太鼓）から能楽に使用する鼓類までを含んでしまう。
• In the wide-sense, the drum is something with a mounted skin struck in some ways to emit sound, thus, it includes all the drums ranging from the uchiwa-daiko (a round fan drum) recognized by the aborigines in Asia, the Native people in Asia, the drum struck in the Nichiren sect, to the hand drums used for the Noh music.

• 太鼓が入るのは基本的に死者の霊や鬼畜の登場する怪異的な内容の曲のみで、そのほかの場合には笛と大小の鼓のみで演じる（この場合には大鼓がリズムの主導役を担う）。
• Basically, the side drum is played only during a grotesque scene when a departed spirit or a devil appears and apart from that, only flutes and big and small hand drums are used (with the big drum initiating the rhythm).

• 五人囃子は能の囃子を奏でる5人の楽人をあらわし、それぞれ「太鼓」「大皮」「小鼓」「笛」「謡」である（能囃子の代わりに5人、又は7人の雅楽の楽人の場合もある）
• The gonin-bayashi represent five musicians for playing the percussion ensemble for the Noh drama), respectively: their parts are the taiko (stick drum), the okawa (slide hand drum), the kotsuzumi (shoulder drum), the fue (Japanese flute), and the utai (chant) (in some cases, five or seven ancient court musicians are displayed in place of the Noh hayashi musicians.)

• このため、古来より渇水の多い香川県～愛媛県東部等での特に稲作が盛んな地域では、神輿としての用途よりもむしろ「雨乞い神具」としての性格をもって太鼓台が分布した。
• For this reason, the taikodai is distributed as 'amagoi shingu' (a ritual article for raining rite) rather than as mikoshi in Kagawa Prefecture to the eastern area of Ehime Prefecture, especially in rice-growing areas, where people have been suffering from a water-shortage since ancient time.

• 特に、三方ヶ原の戦いに際して浜松城の太鼓を打ち鳴らし敗戦の味方を鼓舞した逸話、長篠の戦いで鳶が巣山砦の奇襲を成功させて織田信長の賞賛を受けた逸話が有名である。
• Particularly famous is an anecdote about his beating a drum in Hamamatsu Castle to raise the morale of his troops in the Battle of Mikatagahara and an anecdote about his successful surprise attack on Tobigasuyama fortress in the Battle of Nagashino, for which Nobunaga ODA praised him.

• しかし、さらに追っ手に追われると、菊の前は菊の前に従ってついてきた11人の侍女たちとともに、太鼓岩と呼ばれる崖の上から山の北下を流れる箒川に身を投げ自害した。
• As the pursuers approached, Kikunomae and her eleven lady attendants leaped from the bluff called Taikoiwa into the Hokigawa River on the north of the mountain to death.

• 1999年度までは各応援団の団太鼓の使用を許可していたが、1999年度のステージにおいて団太鼓の大音量で、新幹線の感震器を反応させ停めるという珍事を起こした。.
• The use of taiko drums of each cheerleading club was permitted until 1999; however, so much noise of taiko drums on the stage caused such an accident that a vibration sensor was activated making the Shinkansen stop.

• 日本では七福神の一人として知られる布袋尊和尚は、中国では、弥勒の化身とされ、下生した弥勒如来として仏堂の正面にその破顔と太鼓腹で膝を崩した風姿のまま祀られている。
• The priest Hotei-son, who is known in Japan as one of the seven deities of good luck, is considered to be an incarnation of Miroku in China; he is enshrined and depicted as a relaxed figure with a smile and a fat stomach, as Miroku Nyorai appeared in this world at the front of the Buddhist hall.

• また同漫画をはじめとする水木の妖怪画では、その名の通り和服姿の老婆として描かれているが、妖怪研究家・京極夏彦によれば佐渡島の郷土芸能・鬼太鼓の面がモデルとされる。
• In MIZUKI's pictures of specters including the above-mentioned comic, Sunakake-babaa is depicted as an old woman wearing traditional Japanese clothing as suggested by the name, but according to Natsuhiko KYOGOKU, a scholar of specters, the appearance is based on a mask used in a local performing art of Sadoga-shima Island called ondeko.

• 能管、小鼓、大鼓によって奏される働事には「カケリ」（翔）、「イロエ」（彩色）、「斬組」、「立廻り」（ハタラキともいう。また立廻りには太鼓入りもある）の四種がある。
• There are four kinds of hataraki-goto that are played on nohkan, kotsuzumi, and otsuzumi: 'kakeri' (a type of action piece in Noh, hataraki danced about the ghosts of warriors, shura-mono or mad people, kyoran-mono to depict suffering or distraction), 'iroe' (shosa, a conduct of Noh, short dance of the shite, a main role making the circuit of the stage silently before kuse), 'kirikumi,' and 'tachimawari' (also called hataraki and the stick drum is used in some tachimawari).

• 珍しい例であるが地方によってはその地方特有に個別の変化をして太鼓台そのものの外観がすっかり変わってしまったところもある（愛媛県西条市の太鼓台（曳き山）が顕著な例）。
• As a rare example, some regions have individually transformed the styles and the appearances of the taikodai into their own regional ones, which are completely different from other standard ones. (a prominent example: the taikodai (hikiyama) in Saijo City, Ehime Prefecture)

• 太鼓の叩き方は地方によって異なり、掛け声も「チョーサージャ（又はヨーイッサージャ）」「ソウリャ、ソウリャ」「ヨーサージャ、ヨイヨイサージャ」等々地方ごとに特徴がある。
• There are regional differences in the style of beating the drum, and so there are differences in the calls such as 'cho-sa-ja (or yo-issa-ja),' 'sorya-sorya,' and 'yo-sa-ja, yoiyoi-sa-ja.'

• 江戸時代以降、大坂市街地の南にかつて「渡辺村」と呼ばれた被差別部落民の集落があり皮革製造、太鼓製造などを行ってきたが、ここも本来の渡辺津の場所からはかなり離れている。
• After the Edo period, on the south of the urban area of Osaka City, there was a settlement of Burakumin (modern-day descendants of Japan's feudal outcast group) called 'Watanabe-mura Village,' manufacturing leather, drums and such, and this place also was a good distance from the location where Watanabe no tsu used to be.

• 江戸期謡曲「千歳楽」が現在の倉敷市連島で創作され流行、太鼓台を担ぐ際謡曲「千歳楽」を唄うことがこの界隈で普遍化し太鼓台自体を「千歳楽」と呼ぶようになったとする説が有力。
• A predominant theory suggests that the derivation of 'senzairaku' from taikodai lie on the fact that a newly created Noh song 'senzairaku' during the Edo period in now Tsurajima, Kurashiki City became so popular that people generally chanted the song in shouldering the taikodai in their neighborhoods, which led to call the taikodai itself 'senzairaku.'

• 差し上げ(さしあげ)とは、おもに祭で運行される神輿や太鼓台、ふとん太鼓、山車など担いで運行する方式の祭礼神具を　通常の担ぐ高さより更に高く持ち上げて舁く様子のことをさす。
• Sashiage is a way of lifting up votive objects for a Shinto home shrine, which are of a shouldered type used at a festival, such as Mikoshi (a portable shrine), Taikodai (a drum stand), Futon Daiko (a mattress drum) or Dashi (a float), higher than usual.

• 深川芸者が「太鼓結び」を発案したとき、帯の形を整えるために帯枕も発案されたが、この帯枕を隠し、かつ重くなった帯を支えるために発明されたのが帯揚げではないかと考えられている。
• When Fukagawa geisha (geisha in Fukagawa, Edo (present-day Tokyo)) devised 'taikomusubi' (a puffed-out bow of an obi), they also devised obimakura; it is considered that obiage was invented in order to hide the obimakura and to provide support for the obi which became heavier due to obimakura.

• 強盗返は演技や演劇の進行を妨げることなく短時間で場面を切り換える手段として用いられ、歌舞伎では「どんでんどんでん」と鳴る大太鼓の音からどんでん返しの名で呼ばれることがある。
• Gando gaeshi is used for changing scenes in a small amount of time without impeding the progress of a performance or a play, and in Kabuki it is sometimes called 'donden gaeshi' after the sound of an odaiko (large drum) which is like 'Donden-Donden'.

• 方相氏が大内裏を回るとき、公卿は清涼殿の階(きざはし)から弓矢をもって方相氏に対して弓 (武器)をひき、殿上人（でんじょうびと）らは振り鼓(でんでん太鼓)をふって厄を払った。
• When Hososhi went around the Imperial Palace and government offices, court nobles holding bows and an arrows drew their weapons at Hososhi from the stairs in the Seiryoden (Literally Limpid Cool Hall, an imperial summer palace), and tenjobito (high-ranking courtiers allowed into the Imperial Palace) performed exorcism by rolling the handles of den-den drums.

• 各像のポーズは変化に富み、琴、琵琶、縦笛、横笛、笙、太鼓、鼓、鉦鼓などの楽器を奏する像が27体あり、他には合掌するもの、幡や蓮華などを持つもの、立って舞う姿のものなどがある。
• Each carving is in a different posture, and there are 27 carvings with some playing instruments such as koto, biwa, end-blown flutes, transverse flutes, free-reed instruments, drums, hand drums ad small gongs, and others putting their hands together in prayer, holding banners or lotus flowers or dancing.

• なお、三味線・「おおど（＝平太鼓）」・締太鼓で奏でられる寄席囃子には、『地車』という曲がある（笑福亭仁鶴 (3代目)の落語のレコードには、この出囃子が用いられたものもある）。
• In addition, there is a piece of music called 'Danjiri' in yosebayashi (rakugo theater music) which is played with shamisen, oodo (flat drum) and shime-daiko drum (this debayashi [stage music at a traditional comic variety theater] was used in some rakugo records of Nikaku SHOFUKUTEI [the third]).

• 中でも、ある少年和太鼓集団は、少年の和太鼓集団自体は非常に多い中で珍しく、ふんどし一丁で行い、最後の曲で半天、半タコを脱いで、ふんどし一丁になると多大な拍手喝采が起こるらしい。
• There are enormous numbers of Japanese boys drum groups, but among them, a group performs in only a loincloth, and in their last play, they take off the hantako leaving only the loincloth and bring about a large applause.

• 地域によって様々な違いがあるが、2～6名程度の人間が乗り込んで内部の太鼓を叩き、その太鼓の音に合わせて掛け声をかけ、数十人～百人以上で担ぎ上げ、練り歩くという形式は共通している。
• The taikodai shows a wide regional variation in the form and the style, but has a common style that two to six men get into the taikodai and beat the drum placed in it, providing the rhythm that guides dozens to more than one hundred men below who shoulder the taikodai and parade through their parishes, shouting a call synchronized exactly with the drum beat.

• 人間の生命の根元である心臓の鼓動に太鼓の鼓動がシンクロすることによって、自らを鼓舞する性質があるという説もあり、戦における太鼓の使用はこの説に従えば有効な活用法であったと言える。
• Because the beats of the Japanese drum synchronize with the pulses of the heart, which is the beginning of human life, there is even a theory that the Japanese drum has the nature to encourage one's will, according to this theory, the use of drums in war provides an effective practical use.

• 太鼓台には神輿（神の輿）としての役割はないが、布団屋根の太鼓台の布団部分、また神輿屋根の太鼓台の擬宝珠部分には神霊が宿ると考える地域があることから、ある種の依り代とも考えられる。
• Although the taikodai serves no function in festivals as mikoshi (portable shrine), the taikodai is also believed to be a kind of yorishiro (an object where the gods reside) because divine spirits are thought to dwell at the roof part of the futonyane (roof part of a taikodai is called 'futon') on the taikodai, or at a giboshi (a decoration in the shape of the onion-bulb jewel) of the mikoshiyane (a roof of a mikoshi) on the taikodai in some areas.

• 他の呼称として太鼓・ふとん太鼓・ちょうさ・頂載（ちょうさい）・千歳楽（千才楽）・ヤッサ・四つ太鼓・ふとん御輿・御輿太鼓・布団だんじり・太鼓山等、総称として屋台・太鼓屋台等がある。
• Other names of taikodai are taiko, futon-daiko (mattress drum), chosa, chosai, senzairaku, yassa, yotsu-daiko (literally, four drums), futon-mikoshi (literally, mattress portable shrine), mikoshi-daiko (literally, portable shrine drum), futon-danjiri, and taiko-yama, and the general terms are yatai and taiko-yatai.

• 和太鼓は、縄文時代には既に、情報伝達の手段として利用されていたといわれており、日本における太鼓の歴史は非常に古く、日本神話の天岩戸の場面でも桶を伏せて音を鳴らしたと伝えられている。
• It is said that the Japanese drum had already been used as a means of the information transmission during the Jomon Period, and the history of the drum in Japan is very old and can even be traced back to a scene in the Japanese myth 'ama-no-iwato' (the door of the rock room in heaven) in which a tub was placed bottom upward to make a sound.

• 台輪と呼ばれる土台部分に太鼓、担ぐための舁き棒（4本が最も多い）、高欄、四本柱と続き、この上に支輪と四方を飾る雲板、そしてその上に布団または重と呼ばれる屋根という構造が一般的である。
• The standard structure of taikodai includes a basic part called daiwa (an architrave), on which a drum is placed, a koran (a balustrade) and four columns built on the daiwa, a shirin (a dressed lumber) fixed on the top of the four columns, an unpan (a metallic plate designed in the shape of cloud such as a signal) decorating the four sides of the shirin, and a roof on top of the taikodai, known as futon or ju; all these parts rest on katsugibo (shouldering poles, a taikodai with four poles is most popular).

• 毒鼓とは、毒薬を塗った太鼓で、それを打ち鳴らすと聞いた人はみんな死んでしまうという伝説であり、それと同じように仏の教えは衆生の貪・瞋・癡の三毒を滅すことができるということを表している。
• The legend holds that the dokku was a drum to which poison was applied, and that when the drum was beaten, all the people hearing the sound would die; in the same way, the teachings of Buddha are to eliminate the three poisons of avarice, anger and ignorance among people.

• 中国地方の山間I部では、旧家の由緒ある田に美しく着飾ったウシを入れて代かきをし、ささら・笛・太鼓・鉦などの囃に合わせて田植歌をうたいながら早乙女たちが田植をすることを大田植と呼んでいる。
• In some mountainous areas in Chugoku region, Otaue refers to having rice planted by female rice planters singing in accompaniment to hayashi (a musical accompaniment in Japanese classical or folk music) played on traditional Japanese instruments such as the sasara (a traditional Japanese percussion instrument), fue (Japanese flute), drums, and bells in an old family's rice fields have been cultivated with the use of beautifully dressed cows.

• 前者を「複式」（多種多様の太鼓によって演奏されるもの）と「単式」（一種の太鼓によるもの）と分類し、後者を「複打」（二人以上で演奏されるもの）と「単打」（一人で演奏されるもの）に分類する。
• The former is classified into 'multiple drums' (performed with various drums) and 'single drum' (performed with only one types of drums), while the latter is classified into 'multiple drummers' (performed by at least two drummers) and 'single drummer' (performed by only one drummer).

• 中世に入り「南無阿弥陀仏」の念仏に複雑な節がつけられ、当初は鉦だけであったが、それに太鼓が加わったお囃子となり、六斎日におこなれるようになったことから、「六斎念仏」と呼ばれるようになった。
• In the medieval times, a complicated rendition of the phrase 'Namu Amidabutsu' (prayer for Amida Buddha) was created, accompanied at first only by a gong, which, with the addition of a Japanese drum, developed into ohayashi (Japanese-style band music) and was performed on Rokusai-nichi (the Sabbath/six days per month), thus called 'Rokusai Nenbutsu.'

• 神輿が神社の所有物であるのに対して、太鼓台は山車と同様に氏子地域からの出し物であることが多く、太鼓台の祭礼における役割は神幸祭のお供や先導（露払い）、および神前での練りによる奉納等である。
• While a mikoshi (a portable shrine) belongs to a shrine, a taikodai as well as a dashi usually belongs to the area of ujiko (shrine parishioners) who donate and maintain it, and the role of taikodai in rites and festivals is to accompany the Shinko-sai Festival (a kind of Shinto ritual; carrying the deity in a mikoshi from a shrine through the community), to lead its parades (tsuyuharai; a forerunner), and to dedicate them before the gods.

• その他、喜多川守貞の『守貞謾稿』にも、「七月七日、今夜を七夕という、今世、大坂ニテハ、・・・太鼓など打ちて終日遊ぶこと也。江戸ニテハ、・・・・青竹ニ短冊色紙ヲ付ケ、高ク屋上ニ建ルコト。」とある。
• In 'Morisada Manko' written by Morisada KITAGAWA, there also is a description saying 'The night of July 7 is tanabata. In Osaka, people play throughout the day while beating drums. In Edo, people hang colored tanzaku on a green bamboo and place it high on the roof'.

• 交差点、広場、神前などの見せ場で太鼓台を頭上高く手で持ち上げる、放り上げる、大きく揺らす、回転する、大通りを走り抜ける、装飾品をはずし他の地区と鉢合わせにするなどして奉納したり競い合ったりする。
• Raising the taikodai up above the carriers' head by hands, tossing it, swaying it roughly, revolving it, running through main streets with the taikodai on the shoulders of carriers, ramming it against the other area's taikodai after taking off its decorations - these dedications and competitions take place at parade places, such as intersections, squares, before the gods.

• 1988年より清水晧祐（小鼓方大倉流）・成田達志（小鼓方幸流）・守家由訓（大鼓方観世流）・中田弘美（太鼓方金春流）ら、大阪の能楽師囃子方の同世代と共に能楽グループ『響』を結成（- 2002年）。
• In 1988, he formed a Noh group 'Hibiki' (- 2002) together with Noh-hayashikata players (instrumentalist for Noh plays) of his generation who lived in Osaka, such as Kosuke SHIMIZU (Kotsuzumi-kata [a small hand drum player] of the Okura school), Tatsushi NARITA (a small hand-drum player of the Ko school), Yoshinori MORIYA (a knee-drum player of the Kanze school) and Hiromi NAKATA (Taiko-kata [a stick-drum player] of the Konparu school).

• 彦根城の建築物には、大津城からの天守を始め、佐和山城から佐和口多門櫓（非現存）と太鼓櫓門、小谷城から西ノ丸三重櫓、観音寺城からや、どこのものかは不明とされているが太鼓門、等の移築伝承が多くある。
• There are many structures transferred from other castles in Hikone-jo Castle such as tenshu from Otsu-jo Castle, Sawaguchi Tamon-yagura (corridor-style gate acted as a stonehouse and defense post at the entrance to the second enclosure) (not existent) and Taiko-yagura Mon (Drum Tower Gate) from Sawayama-jo Castle, nishi no maru sanju yagura (three-storied tower located at the northwest corner of nishi no maru) from Odani-jo Castle and Taiko-mon Gate (Drum Gate) from Kannonji-jo Castle or not known from where.

• また、この時期になると造作物のみならず、派手な衣装に身を包んで笛や太鼓の音に囃されて練り歩く「囃子物」やこれに合わせて拍子を取る「拍子物」、集団で踊りを演じる「風流踊」などが出現するようになった。
• In the same period, people appeared as well as things: the 'Hayashimono' who marched with flutes and drums and wore gorgeous clothes, the 'Hyoshimono' who accompanied the Hayashimono and beat time for them, and the 'Furyuodori' who danced in a group.

• 戦後には、時代劇では『大江戸五人男』、天才棋士坂田三吉を演じた『王将 (1948年の映画)』、コミカルな現代劇『破れ太鼓』などの作品に主演し、大河内伝次郎とともに正真正銘の「スター」であり続けた。
• After the war, he starred in productions such as the period movie 'Oedo Gonin Otoko' (Five Men of Edo), 'Osho' (King) in 1948, a movie based on the life of the gifted professional shogi player Sankichi SAKATA and a comical modern drama 'Yabure-daiko' (A Broken Drum) and was a true 'star' together with Denjiro OKOCHI.

• 仏教では、法華宗・日蓮宗の団扇太鼓以外では太鼓を使うことはあまり見られず打楽器としてはもっぱら木魚（法華宗・日蓮宗では木柾）と鈴が使われるが、大規模な行事には銅鑼や鉦鼓などと一緒に太鼓が用いられる。
• In Buddhism, the Japanese drum is not so often seen to be used except for the round fan drum in the Hokke and Nichiren Sects; as far as percussion instruments are concerned, the mokugyo (a fish-shaped small wooden gong) and the bell are exclusively used (the Hokke and Nichiren sects, however, use mokusho (a round small wooden gong) instead of mokugyo), nevertheless for a large-scale event, the Japanese drum is used with the metallic gongs and metallic drums.

• ただし、寿司職人の間で戦前の寿司一人前分、握り寿司5つと三つ切りの海苔巻き2つを、太鼓のバチ（チャンチキ）に例えて「5かんのチャンチキ」と呼んだと紹介されている（篠田統『すしの本』1970年増補版）。
• However, it described that sushi chefs said five pieces of Nigiri-zushi and two rolls of Norimaki (vinegared rice rolled in a sheet of dried seaweed with various fillings in the center) cut into three pieces, which were equivalent to a sushi set for one person in prewar times, 'chanchiki (gong) of five kan' as compared to drum sticks (enlarged edition of 'Sushi Book' written by Osamu SHINODA in 1970).

• 呼び名の語源は「太閤（秀吉）を持ち上げる」というところから転じて「太閤持ち→太鼓持ち」と呼ばれるようになったという説や、鳴り物である太鼓を叩いて踊ることからそう呼ばれるようになったとする説などがある。
• For the origin of the name, there are theories including that it comes from 'Taiko (father of the Imperial adviser [Hideyoshi]) wo mochiageru' (to praise taiko), which changed to 'Taikomochi,' and that they are called so because they beat an musical instrument taiko (drum) and dance.

• 日蓮の命日の前夜（10月12日）は、お逮夜（おたいや）と呼ばれ、各地から集まった信徒団体の集まり（講中）が、行列し万灯や提灯を掲げ、纏を振り、団扇太鼓や鉦を叩き、題目を唱えながら境内を練り歩くのである。
• On the eve of Nichiren's anniversary (October 12) called Otaiya, groups of believers (kochu) gathered from around the nation parade inside the precincts hoisting mando candles (candles for Buddhist service) and chochin (a lantern), waving matoi (firemen's flag), beating uchiwa-daiko (a round fan drum) and shoko drums and chanting daimoku (Nichiren chant).

• 最近では、手軽に作れるシール形式の千社札が急増しており、宗教的な用途以外にも、名札の代わりにしたり、気合を込めるの意味で太鼓の達人のプレイに使用する自作の撥に貼り付けたりと、様々な用途が生み出されている。
• Recently, easily-made sticker type senjafuda have increased and are used other than for religious purposes such as for business cards and some kind of amulet stuck to 'bachi' (drumsticks) of a drum master to inspire himself when he performs.

• 1988年より清水晧祐（小鼓方大倉流）・山本哲也 (能楽師)（大鼓方大倉流）・守家由訓（大鼓方観世流）・中田弘美（太鼓方金春流）ら、大阪の能楽師囃子方の同世代と共に能楽グループ『響』を結成（～2002年）。
• Since 1988 to 2002, he established 'Hibiki,' a group of Noh actors with Nohgaku hayashikata (the accompanists of Noh play) of the same generation in Osaka, including Kosuke SHIMIZU (the Okura school of kotsuzumi-kata), Tetsuya YAMAMOTO (Noh actor) (the Okura school of otsuzumi-kata [large hand drum player]), Yoshinori MORIYA (the Kanze school of otsuzumi-kata), and Hiromi NAKATA (the Konparu school of taiko-kata [stick drum player]).

• 昭和になるまで和太鼓はそれを主体とする音楽に発展することはなかったが、太鼓奏者の小口大八は、胴の長さや直径等の違いで音が違ってくることを利用し、これを組み合わせることによって太鼓をひとつの音楽に仕立て上げた。
• Although the Japanese drum did not develop into music with itself being the main constituent until the start of Showa Period, drum player Daihachi OGUCHI made use of the fact that the sound differs in accordance with the length of the trunk, the diameter of the skin surface and the combination of both, to tailor the Japanese drum in order to perform a piece of music.

• その中でも笛（篠笛・能管・龍笛など）、和太鼓（中音の打楽器を担当する締太鼓や、低音の打楽器を担当する大太鼓や大胴、そのほか大拍子、団扇太鼓、担ぎ太鼓など）、鉦（摺鉦・当たり鉦、高音の打楽器を担当する）の3種が多い。
• Even amongst these, three types of instrument are prevalent: the flute (high and medium pitched transverse bamboo flutes, Noh flutes etc), traditional drums (mid-range 'Taiko' drums keeping beat as well as other large drums, fan drums and carried drums etc), and gongs, (made of metal, percussion instruments with a high register).

• 渡御行列の順序は祭礼によってまちまちであるが、行列の先頭部には先導役の猿田彦がいることが多く、その次に御幣、笠鉾、獅子、幟、高張り提灯、太鼓などの露払いの役目を持つものや先頭を示すものがあって、神輿がくることが多い。
• The order of the togyo parade differs depending upon the festival, but often at the beginning of the parade, the sarudabiko (Shinto god) leads the way, and then things that serve as outriders such as staff with plaited paper streamers used in Shinto, kasaboko, liondog, flag, large paper lantern on a pole, drum, or things that indicate the head of the parade, and then often the portable shrine.

• 踊りの振り付けについてはトモコダンスプラネットを主宰する今中友子が、踊りの音楽や衣装については株式会社太鼓センターが中心となって制作し、完成した踊りには第2回京都学生祭典の企画名の一つであった「京宴（きょうえん）」と仮称ながら名称が付けられた。
• Choreography was assigned to Tomoko IMANAKA, head of Tomoko Dance Planet, with music and costumes being produced mainly by Taiko Center Co., Ltd., and the completed dance was tentatively named 'Kyoen (feast in Kyoto)', after the title of an event included in the second Kyoto Intercollegiate Festa.

• この布団締めは刺繍などの装飾などによって時代とともに豪華さを増していき、近年の太鼓台では金糸で立体に高縫いされた左右一対のつがいの竜の刺繍が 重の側面のほとんどを覆い隠すまでとなり、重を束ねる帯としての役割から重を飾る飾り面として変化している。
• With the times, these pieces of futon-jime, decorated with embroidery, become more luxurious enough to recently lose the function to bundle the futon as obi (sash for kimono), and to decorate almost all of the four sides of the ju with a brace of three dimensional dragons in symmetry embroidered with gold thread.

• 赤穂浪士の討ち入りを題材とした歌舞伎の演目には、『仮名手本忠臣蔵』のほかにもいわゆる「義士外伝」としてこの『松浦の太鼓』をはじめ、『忠臣連理の鉢植』（植木屋）、『赤垣源蔵徳利の別れ』、『鳩の平右衛門』、『弥作の鎌腹』、『本蔵下屋敷』などがある。
• Apart from 'Kanadehon Chushingura' (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), plays so called `Gishi gaiden' (The biography and story about the person except Ako Roshi) that includes 'Matsu-ura no taiko,' 'Chushin Renri no Hachiue' (uekiya, gardener), 赤垣源蔵徳利の別れ,''Hato no Heiemon,' 'Yasaku no Kamabara,' and 'Honzo Simoyashiki,'are the plays of Kabuki dealing with the raid of Ako Roshi.

• 三婦が下帯を床の若い衆に解かせる場面においては、東京では地味に、又床の店に入るが、上方では三婦が床の者に下帯を持たせ「それ、引いたりしょ。」の掛け声から下座音楽に「かんから太鼓」を交える派手な演出となり、いかにも上方らしいサービス満点さが楽しい。
• In the scene where Sabu makes some young people at Toko no mise (store) remove their loincloths, he enters the store again quietly in Tokyo, but the staging is colorful in kamigata and Sabu has the Toko no people wear loincloths calling out 'Let's pull it' and geze (off-stage) music with 'Kankara Daiko' (drum), which is fullly enjoyable truly like kamigata.

• 半タコ（トランクス）、腹巻き（さらし1反）に半天（半纏、袢纏、法被）というのが一般的だが、創作和太鼓においては、集団によっては、白い着物に赤、紫、紺、等の袴、又、一部の集団に於いては男性（ごく稀に少年）は曲目によってはふんどし一丁、という所もある。
• In general, a drummer wears hantako (trunks) with a bellyband (a band of bleached cloth) and a hanten (a short coat originally for craftsmen worn over a kimono) or a happi coat (a workman's livery coat), however, in a creative Japanese drum performance, the costumes may be a white kimono, with a hakama (a long pleated skirt worn over a kimono) of color such as red, or dark blue, depending on the groups, and there are also groups of men (sometimes boys in extremely rare cases) dressed in loincloths, depending on the play.

• なにせ二日前のことですから、そう毛皮と豪奢なショールをまとったらくだが、美しい花嫁を運んで街の城壁のまわりをめぐり、そのあいだ太鼓やシンバルがなりひびき、女性たちは歌い、祝砲がなりひびき、花婿がなんといっても一番多くらくだの周りで祝砲をあげたのは。
• It was only two days ago that the camel, adorned with furs and with costly shawls, had carried her, the beauteous bride, round the walls of the city, while drums and cymbals had sounded, the women sang, and festive shots, of which the bridegroom fired the greatest number, resounded round the camel;

• また、1990年代前半ころ、ビデオカメラ（カムコーダ）が各家庭に普及し始め、そのカムコーダを用いて長柄八幡宮・南長柄八幡宮、そして「キタ」の華麗さを取り入れた平野地車囃子保存会による、派手な親太鼓の演奏を録画して真似る保存会、講・連が増えていった。
• Also, in the early 1990s, as camcorders started to spread amongst families, there was an increase in preservation societies, Ko and Ren, recording the showy performance of the oyadaiko played by Nagae-hachimangu Shrine, Minami Nagae-hachimangu Shrine and Hirano Danjiri-bayashi hozonkai which took in the splendor of the performance of 'Kita' (a part of the Kita Ward in Osaka City).

• 「守貞漫稿」には食品以外にもほうき、花、風鈴、銅の器、もぐさ、暦、筆墨、樽、おけ、たき付け用の木くず、ざる、蚊帳、草履、みのかさ、植木、小太鼓、シャボン玉、金魚、鈴虫・松虫などの昆虫、錦鯉など日用品や子供のおもちゃ、果てはペットを商う振売も紹介されている。
• In addition to the food peddlers, the 'Morisadamanko' introduces other furiuri dealing with daily necessities including brooms, flowers, wind bells, copper containers, moxa, calendars, ink, barrels, tubs, kindling woodchips, baskets, mosquito nets, sandals, straw raincoats and hats, garden trees, small drums, soap bubbles, gold fish, insects such as bell cricket and pine cricket, varicolored golden carps as well as children's toys, and on top of that, pet peddlers are introduced.

• 実際、現在別表神社として格が認められているものは、志和稲荷神社、竹駒神社、笠間稲荷神社、箭弓稲荷神社、太鼓谷稲成神社、祐徳稲荷神社、高橋稲荷神社のみであり、これらが特に影響力を持っていた稲荷社であったと推測できる（尤も、旧社格は伏見のみで、あとは県社、郷社であった。
• Among Beppyo-jinja Shrines (shrines that are under the Grand Shrine at Ise, as listed in an appendix), those given ranking now are limited to the following shrines and they may have had extraordinary power: Shiwa Inari-jinja Shrine, Takekoma-jinja Shrine, Kasama Inari-jinja Shrine, Yakyu Inari-jinja Shrine, Taikodani Inari-jinja Shrine, Yutoku Inari-jinja Shrine, and Takahashi Inari-jinja Shrine, (additionally, it was only the Fushimi Inari-taisha Shrine that had received a shrine ranking under the ex-ranking system while the rest were treated as prefectural shrines or village shrines).

• 大判焼き（小判焼き）・二重焼き・回転焼き（回転饅頭）・きんつば・おやき（長野県のおやきとは異なる）など、形状や製法に基づく名だけではなく、甘太郎焼・七越焼き・義士焼き・太鼓焼き・太閤焼き・夫婦まんじゅう（フーマン）・太鼓饅頭・蜂楽饅頭・あじまんと店名などでも呼ばれている。
• Cake names which are derived from the shape and cooking method include Obanyaki (Kobanyaki), Nijuyaki, Kaitenyaki (Kaiten-manju), Kintsuba, Oyaki (different from Oyaki in Nagano Prefecture), and cakes which were named after shops or manufacturers include Amataro-yaki, Nanakoshi-yaki, Gishi-yaki, Taiko-yaki (Drum cake), Taiko-yaki (Taiko (father of the Imperial adviser) cake), Fufu-manju (Fuman), Taiko-manju, Horaku-manju, and Ajiman.

• おれは唄わない、貴様唄ってみろと云ったら、金（かね）や太鼓（たいこ）でねえ、迷子の迷子の三太郎と、どんどこ、どんのちゃんちきりん。叩いて廻って逢（あ）われるものならば、わたしなんぞも、金や太鼓でどんどこ、どんのちゃんちきりんと叩いて廻って逢いたい人がある、と二た息にうたって、おおしんどと云った。
• I told her I didn't sing, but I'd like to hear, and she droned out:'If one can go round and meet the one he wants, banging gongs and drums ...... bang, bang, bang, bang, bing, shouting after wandering Santaro, there is some one I'd like to meet by banging round gongs and drums ...... bang, bang, bang, bang, b-i-n-g.'

• 近年の太鼓台では複数積み重ねた枠型をもちいて重ねた布団を模したものとなっており、これは近年の大型化にともない軽量化の必要性が生じたためと おもに市街での運行途中に電線や民家の屋根などとの接触を避けるため高所に警護の人員を配置せねばならなくなったことによるもので 近代～現代ならではの変化であるといえる。
• With the recent taikodai, it is just modern or present-day modifications to the taikodai that several piled frames, modeling the layered futon, are used for the necessity to lighten upsized taikodai, and to perch some guards on the top who prevent the taikodai from hitting the roof of private houses or electric wires on the way of parades in the urban areas.

• 阪急長岡天神・太鼓山・金ヶ原・友岡・小泉橋（大山崎町）・西日本旅客鉄道山崎駅（大山崎町）・奥海印寺・光風台住宅・美竹台住宅・光明寺・東台・薬師堂・舞塚・免許試験場前（京都市伏見区）・阪急東向日（向日市）　向日町郵便局前・向日台団地前（京都市西京区大原野・勝山町）・向日市役所前　経由）・新山崎橋（大山崎町）方面行き
• Buses bound for Shin-Yamazaki-bashi (Oyamazaki-cho) via Hankyu Nagaokatenjin Station, Taikoyama, Kanegahara, Tomooka, Koizumibashi (Oyamazaki-cho), JR Yamazaki Station (Oyamazaki-cho), Okukaiinji, Kofudai Jutaku (Kofudai residential district), Mitakedai Jutaku (Mitakedai residential district), Komyoji (Komyo-ji Temple), Higashidai, Yakushido, Maizuka, Driver's License Center (Fushimi Ward, Kyoto Prefecture), Hankyu Higashimuko Station (Muko City), Mukomachi Yubinkyoku-mae (Mukomachi Post Office), Mukodai Danchi-mae (Mukomachi Housing Complex) (Oharano and Katsuyama-cho in Nishikyo Ward, Kyoto City) and Muko City Hall

• 太鼓台の様式や外観にその地域の土地柄や文化を反映した伝統的な形態を残す地域もあるが、地域経済の発展や氏子主導の祭りへの変化から祭りにイベントとしての要素が強まった地域が増加、見せる祭りとして大型化した太鼓台や飾り幕・刺繍等による豪華な装飾を施したもの、流行の主流となりつつある形態に変更したものが多く見られるようになった。
• While in some areas traditional festival patterns have still remained in the style and the appearance of the taikodai, reflecting the local custom and culture, in many other areas they have been increasingly adapted to mainstream styles, festivals for show, because the local economic development and the festivals mainly conducted by ujiko result in upsized taikodai and highly decorative hangings with gorgeous embroideries for events emphasizing commercial interests and playful elements, not ritual aspects which festivals include.

• シテ方は観世流、宝生流、金春流、金剛流、喜多流、ワキ方は高安流、福王流、宝生流、笛方は一噌流、森田流、藤田流、小鼓方は幸流、幸清流、大倉流、観世流、大鼓方は葛野流、高安流、石井流、大倉流、観世流、太鼓方は観世流、金春流、狂言方は大蔵流、和泉流に所属する能楽師で、所属する流派の宗家および既に能楽協会の会員である者一名の推薦が必要とされる。
• To qualify for membership in Nogaku Kyokai, one is required to get referrals from a current member of the association and from the soke (head of family, originator) of the school, to which he or she belongs, and to be a nogakushi of one of the following schools; Kanze-ryu, Hosho-ryu, Konparu-ryu, Kongo-ryu and Kita-ryu for shite-kata (main roles); Takayasu-ryu, Fukuo-ryu and Hosho-ryu for waki-kata (supporting actors); Isso-ryu, Morita-ryu and Fujita-ryu for fue-kata (roles who play the flute); Ko-ryu, Kosei-ryu, Okura-ryu and Kanze-ryu for kotsuzumi-kata (small hand drum players); Kadono-ryu, Takayasu-ryu, Ishii-ryu, Okura-ryu and Kanze-ryu for otsuzumi-kata (large hand drum players); Kanze-ryu and Konparu-ryu for taiko-kata (drum players), and; Okura-ryu and Izumi-ryu for kyogen-kata (comic actors).