Catalog of Shōdan: Closing Chants
Waka
Voice
Non-congruent
Percussion
Strict
High pitch song with regular poetic text set in einori characterized by use of melisma. It often follows a slow dance such as the Jonomai, as it is the case in Hashitomi. It conforms to the traditional Japanese waka poetry composed of thirty-one syllables, spread over two verses: the first one, 5 + 7 + 5 syllables and the second one, 7 + 7 syllables. In Hashitomi the first verse is delivered during the Waka, while the second one opens the following shōdan, the Kiri with its last line of seven syllables repeated three times.
Waka:
Orite koso
Sore ka tomo mime
Tasokare ni
Kiri:
Honobono mieshi
Hana no iugao