狛楽(こまがく)komagaku
朝鮮半島の高句麗(こうくり)から伝来した舞踊を伴う音楽。飛鳥時代に伝来し、わが国でも演奏された。律令制下で雅楽寮(ががくりょう)の楽として編成され、平安時代には新羅楽(しらぎがく)・百済楽(くだらがく)とともにに右方舞楽として整備統合された。
第74回 正倉院展、2022年
Komagaku
Dances brought to Japan from the three kingdoms on the Korean peninsula during the seventh and eighth centuries were eventually lumped together as komagaku. In the Heian period these became the core pieces of one style of Court Dance, or bugaku, known as “Dances of the Right.”
61st Annual Exhibition of Shōsō-in Treasures, 2009