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kaguraIn Shinto, a traditional style of music and dancing used in religious ceremonies. Kagura dances dedicated to native deities are a reenactment of the propitiatory dance that lured the sun goddess Amaterasu from her cave in ancient myth. Largely unchanged for the past 1,500 years, the dances are performed to the accompaniment of chants, drums, brass gongs, and flutes. The music is of two types: one to praise the spirits or seek their aid, the other to entertain the gods. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Next day, young boys in a group begin to move through the streets of Kameyama and Jibi performing kagura dances in front of the various houses of the prominent citizens of the village. In its comprehensiveness it seems to be a much-needed single-volume textbook on all of Japanese theatre: but few courses are likely to spend nearly as much time on such ancient forms as kagura and gigaku as they do on twentieth century genres like skingeki and angura. |
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