Unlike Japanese folk dance, kagura performances are understood as religious events. “Kagura dance and music can be traced back to the very origin of Japanese performing arts,” Rambelli explained in a ...

Ancient Shinto masked dances of the Edo Festival Troupe, Tokyo, marked the resumption of Asia Society's Performing Arts Program in 1971. (Asia Society) In 1971, Asia Society renewed its Performing ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has driven to the brink of folding the only apparel shop in Hiroshima Prefecture that specializes in creating costumes for performers of kagura, a form of Shinto theatrical ...

Miho Takayasu offers an evening of Kagura, the oldest known Japanese performance practice. The discussion and demonstration also includes an introduction by And ...

For scholars and graduate students, the Shinto tradition has often been an elusive subject of study, and research works have been limited. It’s no wonder that not one publisher outside Japan had a ...

For scholars and graduate students, the Shinto tradition has often been an elusive subject of study, and research works have been limited. It’s no wonder that not one publisher outside Japan had a ...

After the Meiji period these ritual traditions have been dismissed as syncretic aberrations from "pure" Buddhist or Shinto orthodoxy, and have never been studied in depth. However, it was within the ...

'Iwami-Kagura' shinto dance performance organised in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Japan-India diplomatic relations by the Consulate-General of Japan at Chennai, the japan ...

Shinto Shrines Dwarfed by nature, Shinto shrines provide a sense of calm. Set within beautiful gardens, these sacred places venerate the spirits of the natural world.