The original form of the song is said to be Shimpo Kōdaiji (新保広大寺), which originated in Niigata.[3][4] It was later arranged and spread along the Nikkō Reiheishi Kaidō Road by craftmen and traveling entertainers such as Goze. Eventually one around Yagi-shuku became the most popular, where Watanabe and others developed today's form.[3]
Yagi Song Download
Yuko Yagi's short article, "Women, Abuse Songs and Erotic Dances: Marriage Ceremonies in Northern India," examines abuse songs performed at Yadav wedding rituals in Azamgarh, western Uttar Pradesh. Yagi provides an overview of the ceremonies and translates several song texts, but makes little attempt to understand local interpretations of the songs' meanings. For example, during the byah portion of the wedding, when the bridegroom's party visits the bride's village, the bridegroom is given a plate of khicri (rice and daal mixture); if he is not satisfied with the dahej (dowry), he may eat slowly and deliberately. While he is eating, the bride's female relatives sing songs extolling him to eat quickly and ridiculing him for his demands. For Yagi, these songs effect a temporary reversal of status between wife-givers and wife-takers (42); it is just as likely, however, that these songs reinforce status differences between the families by publicly revealing the often contentious negotiation of dowry items. The "erotic dancing" promised in the title is neither described nor analyzed. Yagi moves too quickly from data to generalizations, leaving the reader guessing at the layers of meaning underlying these ritualized performances. Missing in each of these first two articles, as Terada notes in the Introduction, is a consideration of musical sound as a semiotic medium over and above song texts.
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