Hayachine kagura
hayachine kagura 早池峰神楽 ritual dance kagura shinto ceremony composed series twelve dance performed august hayachine shrine hanamaki iwate japan dance performed honor seoritsu tutelary deity mount hayachine music containing drum cymbal flute first six dance torimai bird dance 鳥 舞 okina old man dance 翁 sanbasō third old man dance 三 番 叟 war god hachiman dance 八 幡 mountain god yama kami 山 の 神 dance opening dance rock cave iwato biraki 岩 戸 ritualistic next five tell medieval history japan deity many different hypothesis constitution cycle dance dancer masked final dance performed shishi personification mountain god dance also performed time year outside hayachine shrine rarely full cycle last five hour hayachine kagura discipleship show performed throughout iwate prefecture tradition date back th th century would influenced practice yamabushi buddhist ascetic withdrawn mountain moreover scholar wonder relation history noh theater unesco inscribed hayachine kagura representative list intangible cultural heritage humanity