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Shinto music is the ceremonial and festive music of Shinto (神道), the indigenous religion of Japan. Its origin myth is the erotic dance of Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto which lured Amaterasu from her cave.
A Shinto wedding ceremony. A Shinto wedding ceremony is typically a small affair, limited to family, while a reception is open to a larger group of friends. [1] Shinzen kekkon, literally "wedding before the kami," is a Shinto purification ritual [2] that incorporates the exchange of sake between the couple before they are married. [1]
English: www.JapanCulture-NYC.com The traditional Shinto wedding procession and ceremony of Masato Sadahiro and Mayuka Inaba took place on Sunday, June 19, 2016, in New York City. The procession began at Madison Square Park, with Shinto priests, ritual musicians, and maidens from Miyajidake Shrine in Fukuoka accompanying the couple to Globus ...
Mikagura (御神楽) is a ritual dance performed at the imperial court and at important Shinto shrines: Kamo-jinja and Iwashimizu Hachiman-gū. [5] It consists of welcoming, entertaining and greeting the deities with humorous or poetic syllabic songs. Today it is sometimes considered as a sub-genre of gagaku, of which it is one of the ...
Traditional Shinto ceremonies (神前式, shinzen shiki), which account for around one in six of Japanese weddings, are held in the main building of a shrine. A priest performs a ritual purification for the couple, then announces their marriage to the kami ( 神 , 'gods' or 'spirits') of the shrine and asks for their blessing.
Musicians and dancer, Muromachi period Traditional Japanese music is the folk or traditional music of Japan. Japan's Ministry of Education classifies hōgaku (邦楽, lit. ' Japanese music ') as a category separate from other traditional forms of music, such as gagaku (court music) or shōmyō (Buddhist chanting), but most ethnomusicologists view hōgaku, in a broad sense, as the form from ...
The 'Epic Mother-Son Wedding Dance' video was uploaded to YouTube back in March by ML Photo & Film, and since then it's become a viral sensation, racking up more than 1.4 million views. When you ...
Sato kagura (里神楽), or village kagura, is a popular form of kagura that presents ritualized dance-dramas reenacting mythological themes, including the primal restoration of sunlight to the world. It is often heard during festivals, when musicians accompany their songs on flutes and a variety of drums.