Location: Maeyama, Akita City Site(s) of performance: Raikō Shrine and other places in the community Date(s): August 13 and 20 Category: Sasara and Horse Dance Maeyama Folkloric Performance Art was also called Maeyama Bon Dance. It is a Bon dance with a lion dance and yakko dance (samurai servants’ dance). In the middle of the …
Location: Ani-Kayakusa, Kita-Akita City Site(s) of performance: Yamanokami Shrine and other places in the community Date(s): August 13 and 16 (no longer practiced at the time of survey in fiscal year 2011) Designation: City-Designated Intangible Cultural Property Category: Sasara and Horse Dance The origin of the Kayakusa Lion Dance goes back at least to the …
Location: Katsuratai, Iwase, Odate City Site(s) of performance: Inari Shrine and other places in the community Date(s): August 13 Designation: City-Designated Intangible Cultural Property Category: Sasara and Horse Dance Long ago, the Sasaki family, who belonged to the Ōmi branch of the famous Minamoto family, lost a battle, fled to the north, and found refuge …
Location: Motai, Noshiro City Site(s) of performance: Hachimantai Shrine and Kami-Motai Community Center Date(s): August 14 and 28 Designation: Prefecture-Designated Intangible Folkloric Cultural Property Category: Shishimai and Bangaku Hiyama is where the Hiyama Castle stood in the Middle Ages. The Hiyama Dance is a bangaku dance that has been performed as an offering at the …
Location: Nagasaki, Noshiro City Site(s) of performance: Inari Shrine Date(s): August 13 Category: Bon Dance The Nagasaki Bon Dance is danced around a scaffold for musicians set up on the premises of Inari Shrine. In the evening, people gather at the sound of calling drums. People dance to the beats of the big drums and …
Location: Omachi, Noshiro City (the community that was in charge of the festival in 2011) Site(s) of performance: The area of former Noshiro-Minato-machi, Noshiro City Date(s): August 6 and 7 Category: Taiko-Furyū and Matsuri-Bayashi At Omachi in Noshiro City, drum music is performed at Yaku-Tanabata, a kind of Neburi-Nagashi type of ritual to wash away …
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 a new type of dramatized dance performances that people called kabuki, of which two major schools developed since then: Kamigata (Kyoto and Osaka) …
Location: Toyooka, Toyooka-Kinden, Mitane Town Site(s) of performance: Satomi Shrine Date(s): July 7, August 13–15, and September 1 Designation: Town-Designated Intangible Folkloric Cultural Property Category: Sasara and Horse Dance The sasara here means a lion dance, but Wada Sasara also includes stick dances and yakko dances (samurai servants’ dances). It has been performed for a …
Location: Kashiwabara, Ugo Town Site(s) of performance: Ugo Town Folktale Center Date(s): Last Saturday of January (annual performance) and August 17 Designation: Prefecture-Designated Intangible Folkloric Cultural Property Category: Puppet Theater and Kabuki Sarukura Puppet Theater (also known as Nonaka Puppet Theater) was born in Momoyake (former Chōkai Town) as a modern popular puppet theater. Yohachi …
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Location: Kemanai, Towda, Kazuno City Site(s) of performance: Gassan Shrine and other places in the community Date(s): July 12 and 13 Designation: City-Designated Intangible Folkloric Cultural Property Category: Dai-Kagura The dai-kagura performed at the annual festival of Gassan Shrine is a kind of shishimai (lion dance), and is considered to be one of variants of …