The god of oosugi shrine located in Sakuragawa villidge (Ibaraki pref. Japan) was once famous for its miracle power of curing smallpox in old Edo era. "Amba-bayashi" was a music for religious dance for prayer of curing the decease and it was also famous in Kanto area. "Amba-bayashi" is now spread widly and we can find many kind of variations in traditional "hayashi" musics of sourthern Ibaraki area. It is said as a origin of "Sawara-bayashi" and "Itako-bayashi" (major hayashi musics in and around Ibaraki pref.) and simillarity can be easily heard out.
Images and sounds presented here are recorded on the second day of the Oosugi feast, on October 27th of 1996. Images contain about 30 kilobytes and sound files contain 20 kilobytes in RealAudio format.
The whole structure of Hayashi music is simillar to Sawara-bayashi (See the festival of Sawara). One group is pieces for specified situations, others for a running float, and pieces for dancing while stopping the float. The original Amba-bayashis are played at dancing time.
Pices for running the float and dancing are almost the same as Sawara-bayashi.
Pieces I couldn't find in Sawara.
Here are some hayashi musics which are influenced by Amba-bayashi