Location: Kaizawa, Fushimi, Chokai-machi, Yurihonjo City Site(s) of performance: Anywhere Date(s): Anytime Designation: City-Designated Intangible Folkloric Cultural Property Category: Furyū Karausu-Karami is a dance of four dancers around an empty rice cake mortar (karausu). The four dancers hold karami sticks, poke the sticks into the mortar as if making rice cake, touch the edge of …
Location: Imashuku, Omonogawa-machi, Yokote City Site(s) of performance: Anywhere Date(s): Anytime Designation: City-Designated Intangible Folkloric Cultural Property Category: Show (Misemono) and Music Entertainment Around the turn of the 17th century, Izumo-no-Okuni established the dramatized dance performances that people called kabuki, of which two major schools developed: Kamigata (Kyoto and Osaka) Kabuki and Edo (Tokyo) Kabuki. …
Location: Kami-Jinego, Chokai-machi, Yurihonjo City Site(s) of performance: Jionji Temple and other places in the community Date(s): August 13 and 1st Saturday of September Category: Bon Dance The Bon dance of this community is held in the premises of Jionji Temple, a temple of the Sōtō Zen school. It is danced for appeasement of the …
Location: Iwaki-Kameda, Yurihonjo City Site(s) of performance: Kumano Shrine and other places in the community Date(s): 2nd Saturday and Sunday of July Designation: City-Designated Intangible Folkloric Cultural Property Category: Dai-Kagura The origin of this kagura is unclear, but according to legend, around the time of the Kumano Shrine’s reconstruction in 1773, Kyōgoku Yojiemon of Shimachi …
Location: Kamagadai, Nikaho City Site(s) of performance: The community center and other places in the community Date(s): August 14 and 20 Designation: Prefecture-Designated Intangible Folkloric Cultural Property Category: Shishimai and Bangaku Kamagadai Bangaku belongs to the school of Honkai Bangaku, which was brought to the communities around Mt. Chokai by the priest Honkai, a shugen …
Location: Takao, Yurihonjo City Site(s) of performance: Kinpō Shrine and other places in the community Date(s): January 3, 3rd Sunday of July, and August 15 and 16 Category: Shishimai and Bangaku The shishimai (lion dance) of Takao is the dance of a lion from Kinpō Shrine. According to legends, when the priest Zezan-Taikaku of Akata-Chōkoku …
Location: Kurisawa, Chōkai-machi, Yuri-Honjo City Site(s) of performance: Kannondo Temple and other places in the community Date(s): the month of January, April 17, August 14–16, and the month of December Designation: State-Designated Important Intangible Folkloric Cultural Property Category: Shishimai and Bangaku The name of Honkai Bangaku comes from the name of the priest Honkai, a …
Location: Yagiyama, Kami-Kawauchi, Chōkai-machi, Yuri-Honjo City Site(s) of performance: Fudo Shrine, the community hall, and other places in the community Date(s): 2nd Sunday of June Designation: State-Designated Important Intangible Folkloric Cultural Property Category: Shishimai and Bangaku The name of Honkai Bangaku comes from the name of the priest Honkai, a shugen (Buddhist ascetic) of the …
Location: Kami-Jinego, Chokai-machi, Yurihonjo City Site(s) of performance: Akiba Shrine and other places in the community Date(s): March 24 in the lunar calendar Designation: City-Designated Intangible Folkloric Cultural Property Category: Shishi-Kagura The Akiba Shishi (Akiba Lion Dance) of Kami-Jinego is a shishimai (lion dance) for the annual festival of Akiba Shrine, managed for many years …
Location: Mitsumori, Nikaho City Site(s) of performance: Yakushi Shrine and other places in the community Date(s): January 4 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 offer the dance of …