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Page 471
... Shinto deities ) , performers achieved considerable status in the local community by their participation in these essential communal rites . Performers of popular dance and theatre in East Asia live as do commercial artists everywhere ...
... Shinto deities ) , performers achieved considerable status in the local community by their participation in these essential communal rites . Performers of popular dance and theatre in East Asia live as do commercial artists everywhere ...
Page 475
... Shinto shrines are in essence a symbolic re - enactment of the propitiatory dance that lured the Sun Goddess from the cave in ancient myth . Though kagura dance has been influenced by later more sophisticated dance forms , it is still ...
... Shinto shrines are in essence a symbolic re - enactment of the propitiatory dance that lured the Sun Goddess from the cave in ancient myth . Though kagura dance has been influenced by later more sophisticated dance forms , it is still ...
Page 476
... Shinto shrines from the 7th century without break to the present day . Juggling , acrobatics , ropewalking , buffoonery , and puppetry — the " hundred entertainments " of China and called sangaku , " variety arts , ” in Japan – became ...
... Shinto shrines from the 7th century without break to the present day . Juggling , acrobatics , ropewalking , buffoonery , and puppetry — the " hundred entertainments " of China and called sangaku , " variety arts , ” in Japan – became ...
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