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ICH Materials 3
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Hiyondori and Okunai of Totoumi
03: Shishi-mai, or a Lion dance
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Hiyondori and Okunai of Totoumi
02: Dance of Zun
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Hiyondori and Okunai of Totoumi
In Buddhist temples, a ritual to wish for a happy and prosperous year will be held in the beginning of a year. In cases when a temple economically collapses, people sometimes try to succeed the ritual themselves, and Hiyondori and Okunai of Totoumi is one which those cases. At the night of Janurary 4th, ten kinds of dances are performed within the temple, after purifying the inside of a temple by a torch.\n01: The scene of bringing in torches for purifying inside the chapel
Japan