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

在南九州、萨摩南岛和奄美群岛有很多民间表演艺术。它们位于冲绳（琉球）和大和（这意味着日本除了奄美和冲绳）之间，所以，许多表演艺术在历史上受到了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，在这些地区有2个民间文化边界，一个是萨摩南岛和奄美大岛之间，另一个是德之岛和冲之寺武岛之间，所以，这些地区的琉球表演艺术和大和表演艺术根据3个地区类别分为3个地区类别，民间文化领地。南九州和萨摩南群岛有许多琉球表演艺术，人们在其中有意识地代表了琉球形象。在奄美大岛、德之岛和喜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。在冲之劳部岛和与龙岛，有许多大和表演艺术，人们在表演中有意识地表现大和形象，但仔细比较，我们可以发现每个地区都有一些差异。例如，在萨摩南群岛的琉球表演艺术中，人们比南九州更有意识地和奇怪地表现琉球形象。德之岛和喜海岛的人代表了不同的大和形象，而奄美大岛的人则没有。这表明，仅根据3个地区类别来了解南九州、萨摩南岛和奄美群岛的民俗文化是不够的。这些地区应被视为每个岛屿和地区的集合体，在这些岛屿和地区中，文化交流和历史停留的相互作用形成了独创性。

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.