The Ryukyu Folk Performing Arts in Southern Kyushu, Satsunan Islands and Amami Islands

在九州南部、萨楚南群岛和奄美群岛有很多民间表演艺术。他们位于冲绳（琉球）和大和（意思是除了奄美和冲绳以外的日本）之间，因此，许多表演艺术在历史上受到冲绳文化和大和文化的影响。它们可以被称为琉球表演艺术和大和表演艺术。据说这些地区有两个民俗文化边界，一个是在Satsunan群岛和Amamioshima之间，另一个是在Tokunoshima和Okinoerabujima之间，因此，它们分为3个民俗文化领域。这些地区的琉球表演艺术和大和表演艺术根据3个民间文化领域分为3个地区类别。在南九州和萨楚南群岛有许多琉球表演艺术，人们有意识地表现琉球形象。在奄之岛、德之岛和菊海岛有许多琉球表演艺术，也有许多大和表演艺术，它们是混合的。在冲绳岛和约伦岛有许多大和表演艺术，人们有意识地表现大和形象。但是，通过仔细比较，我们可以发现每个地区的一些差异。例如，在萨楚南群岛的琉球表演艺术中，人们比在南九州更有意识和更奇怪地表现琉球形象。德之岛和菊海岛的人代表着不同的大和形象，而天之岛的人却没有。结果表明，仅从九州南岛、萨楚南岛和天美岛三个地区的民俗文化来理解是不够的。这些地区应被视为每个岛屿和地区的集合，其中的原创性是通过文化交流的相互作用形成的，并具有历史意义。

There are a lot of folk performing arts In Southern Kyushu, Satsunan Islands and Amami Islands. They are located between Okinawa (Ryukyu) and Yamato (which means Japan except Amami and Okinawa), so, many of those performing arts were influenced by Okinawa culture and Yamato culture historically. They can be called Ryukyu Performing Arts and Yamato Performing Arts.It is said that there are 2 folk cultural boundaries in these regions, one is between Satsunan Islands and the Amamioshima Island and the other is between the Tokunoshima Island and the Okinoerabujima Island, so, they divide into 3 folk cultural territories.Ryukyu Performing Arts and Yamato Performing Arts in these regions divide into 3 regional categories according to 3 folk cultural territories. In Southern Kyushu and Satsunan Islands there are many Ryukyu Performing Arts in which people represent Ryukyu images consciously. In the Amamioshima Island, the Tokunoshima Island and the Kikaijima Island there are many Ryukyu Performing Arts, and there are many Yamato Performing Arts too, and they are mixed. In the Okinoerabujima Island and the Yoron Island there are many Yamato Performing Arts in which people represent Yamato images consciously.But we can find some differences in each territory by a careful comparison. For example, in Ryukyu Performing Arts of the Satsunan Islands people represent Ryukyu images more consciously and strangely than in those of Southern Kyushu. People in the Tokunoshima Island and the Kikaijima Island represent different kind of Yamato images which people in the Amamioshima Island do not represent. It shows that it is not enough to understand the folk culture in Southern Kyushu, Satsunan Islands and Amami Islands according to 3 regional categories. These regions should be regarded as an assembly of each island and region in which originality was formed by interplay of cultural exchange and stay historically.