movements-jerky

Updated: June 22, 2025

Each dancer makes a half-wheel alternately to left and right, with a peculiar bending of the knees and tossing up of the hands at the same time as in the act of lifting a weight above the head; but there are other curious movements-jerky with the men, undulatory with the women as impossible to describe as water in motion.

Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan : First Series