Location: Hirasawa, Nikaho City Site(s) of performance: Akiba Shrine and other places in the community Date(s): 2nd Sunday and Monday of January Category: Shishi-Kagura The performance mainly consists of the performance of the Lion Head Dance (also called the Twelve-Number Lion Dance), a kind of shishimai (lion dances). The performers go around the community and …
Location: Hirasawa, Nikaho City Site(s) of performance: Kumano Shrine and other places in the community Date(s): January 3 and 1st Sunday of August Category: Shishi-Kagura The performance mainly consists of the performance of the Lion Head Dance (also called the Twelve-Number Lion Dance), a kind of shishimai (lion dances). The performers go around the community …
Location: Himeno, Nikaho City Site(s) of performance: Kushi Shrine and other Site(s) of performance in the community Date(s): January 3 and the 3rd Sunday of September Category: Shishi-Kagura The performance mainly consists of the performance of the Lion Head Dance (also called the Twelve-Number Lion Dance), a kind of shishimai (lion dances). The performers go …
Location: Hata, Nikaho City Site(s) of performance: Inari Shrine and other places in the community Date(s): January 2 and 4th Sunday of May Category: Shishi-Kagura The performance mainly consists of the performance of the Lion Head Dance (also called the Twelve-Number Lion Dance), a kind of shishimai (lion dances). The performers go around the community …
Location: Ushijima-Higashi, Akita City Site(s) of performance: Sankō-Kumano Shrine and other places in the community Date(s): January 5–14 Category: Shishi-Kagura This shishimai (lion dance) is practiced in Ushijima around Sankō-Kumano Shrine. From around January 5 to 14, the lion dances to pray for the townsmen’s safety, health, and happiness. There are two types of dance. …
Location: Fukuyama, Yurihonjo City Site(s) of performance: Toyouke Shrine and other places in the community Date(s): January 11 and 16 and August 14 (no longer performed as of the time of the survey conducted in fiscal year 2020) Category: Shishimai and Bangaku Fukuda Shishimai (Fukuda Lion Dance) was derived from Honkai Shishimai and Bangaku. There …
Location: Bugyomen, Kawanishi, Yurihonjo City Site(s) of performance: Shiratori Shrine and other places in the community Date(s): 2nd Saturday of April (annual festival of Shiratori Shrine) Category: Dai-Kagura Bugyōmen-Kagura is derived from Ise Dai-Kagura. Dancers and musicians are clearly separated. Music is played with drums, Japanese flutes, and gongs. The program consists of primary dances …
Location: Arawa, Akita City Site(s) of performance: Various places in the community Date(s): 3rd Sunday of August Category: Bon Dance Daishōji Okesa is one of the variants of Haiya Music, which was born in Tasuke (in present-day Nagasaki Prefecture) and was propagated all over Japan. As to the route of transmission to Daishōji, one theory …
Location: Kuzuoka, Yurihonjo City Site(s) of performance: Kinpō Shrine and other places in the community Date(s): August 14 and 15, September 9, and November 23 Category: Shishimai and Bangaku According to ‘The Records of Kinpō Shrine,’ a man named Yanosuke from Semboku County brought the bangaku here, but according to another legend, the lion head, …
Location: Akata, Yurihonjo City Site(s) of performance: Chōkokuji Temple, Shinmei Shrine, and Akata Community Center Date(s): February 11 (for the Buddhist rituals of Mahaprajnaparamita Sutra), August 22, and December 10 Category: Shishi-Kagura and Bangaku The shishimai (lion dance) of Akata is what the priest Zezan-Taikaku of Chōkokuji Temple left here. Zezan taught shishimai to many …