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There is an idiom saying: 心技一体, pronounced like Shingiittai. Shin means one's spirit. Gi means one's art, Ittai means both together. So...

Summer is getting over. Sooner we will have winter kagura period. The reasons why we perform kagura can be numerous. The principal reason...

Today is July 28, it is the day of Odaidai dance. This dance, according to the transmission began as a ritual dance for the Mt. Fuji...

Edward Poynter, Orpheus and Eurydice, 1862 It is often said that the myths from all over the world have commun subjects. The taboo...

My family is belong to Soto-shu This is one of three zen sects of Kamakura period (13th century). The Heart Sutra is my most familiar...

The work of ethno(musicologist) is to translate the words of one's field into the words of his own culture. I understand that encoding is...

One piece of kagura dance can long over one hour. The dance Odaidai is not so long but it one day until that all of repertory are...

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They say that the supernatural power incarnates into the pronounced words and make it come true. This is kotodama, the soul of words. It...

The fundamentals of Japanese religion are at their ancestral worship. Even after the adaptation of Buddhism, Japanese keep their...

In 2006, all of the world, especially me as big astronomy fan, surprised about the news that the Uranus is no more a planet. It was in...

Born in 1980 Yamanashi, Japan, Akiko Hirai started the piano at 4, and the vocal music at 17. She studied the vocal music at Ochanomizu...

Welcome to my blog! When it comes to Japanese theatre, kabuki or no theatre are well known. As kagura is transmitted by shrine believers...