Kagura Matsuri
September 24th 2005 Today some English teachers and I went to Midori-cho (in Akitakata-shi) to watch Kagura. The word 'kagura' means "place of the gods," but when it is written in Japanese the characters used mean "music of the gods." Kagura is an ancient style of Japanese dance in which the dancers wear beautifully decorated kimono. The dances that they preform tend to involve storylines of Japanese fighting
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