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kagura
Works in 0 traditions beyond Japanese attest this concept, on 0 cited pages.
Also under: 神楽
Analogues, judged
A different word, in another tradition, that a reviewer judged to name a neighbouring idea. These are not attestations of kagura; each carries the reviewer’s confidence and reason.
- norito Japanese70%glossed 'sacred Shinto music'/'sacred dance' — a different ritual form performed at shrines (judged from the other side)
In other traditions
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No work outside Japanese on the four maps attests this concept behind the evidence gate.
At home in Japanese
- 1332Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness)same word
- 1418Fushikaden (Kadensho, Zeami's Treatise on Noh)same word
- 1420Noh plays of dream (mugen nō): Atsumori, Izutsu, Kantansame word
- kagura — sacred dancenemi . The eight million deities gathered at Mount Kagu and, in order to capture the heart of the great deity, performedFūshikaden (花伝書, Kadensho — Zeami's Treatise on Noh), 1418, p. 22 · flagged as a term by the translator
- kagura — sacred danceo, there is no such thing. Now, it is splendid. The world, holding it, the robe is worn. Waiting for the dawn. The night観世流謡本 (Kanze-ryū Utaibon), Vol. 1, 1840, p. 11 · flagged as a term by the translator
- kagura — ritual performances for the godsry people practice the Way of the Gods Shintō the indigenous spiritual tradition of Japan through sacred music and dance観世流謡本 (Kanze-ryū Utaibon), Vol. 8, 1840, p. -10 · flagged as a term by the translator
- 1710Kaibara Ekken corpus (Ekiken Zenshu)same word
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