SCHEDULE KAGURA

Niigata Kagura Calendar

In Niigata, the distinctive Kagura Dance that is closely tied to the lifename of each village has been handed down and dedicated to the spring/autumn festival for wishing for good harvest and expressing gratitude for the year. It will be a valuable experience where you can experience the culture nurtured by Niigata, one of Japan's leading rice-growing lands. The dates are subject to change, so we recommend that you check in advance. The kagura Dance of the village is a ritual dedicated to the shrine, so please observe the manners so that you do not cross the gated kagura or enter private land without permission. The dots on the Google map indicate the approximate locations of the villages.

name Akatsukadaidai Kagura
Event date April 15, 2020
Area Nishi Ward
Remarks [Citizens' Cultural Heritage]
Every year at the Akatsuka Shrine Spring Festival on April 15th, four elementary school children dedicate the Chigo Dance and Daidai Kagura.
At the end of Tata Kagura is the Daikoku Dance, which is popular among children because sweets are thrown for them to pick up.
The Chigo Dance disappeared in the Heisei period due to the circumstances, but it was revived in April 2010 (Heisei 22) with the cooperation of the locals wishing for a revival, and has been dedicated at the Akatsuka Shrine Spring Festival.
name Akiba Shrine's Tayu Dance
Event date April 24 - 25
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Harvest Kagura
Performance: Tayuno Dance and Daidai Dance
Tenpachi dedication will take place on April 25.
name Asahi Kagura
Event date August 24 - 25
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
The performances are Kagura Dances (Suzumai, Makushibori, Tama-asobi, Okazaki, Tengu Dance, Fight of Tengu and Kagura) and Shiho-giri.
Hand Dance, Stick Dance, Sword Dance, Okame Kyogen, Sanko Hakko, and manzai are performed.
name Ichinose Kagura
Event date August 28 - 29
Area Akiba Ward(Day1) Akiba Ward(Day2)
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
On Day 1, at Jinmeigu Shrine, (1) an exorcism at the village border, (2) Miyanobori, a visit to the shrine, and (3) Dedicated Dance;
On Day 2, at Izu shrine, (1) an exorcism at the village border, (2) Miyanobori, a visit to the shrine, and (3) Dedicated Dance; Featuring kids' Kagura Dances (Sword Dance and Plain Dance).
name Ibarasone Daidai Kagura
Event date Irregular
Area South Ward
Remarks [Citizens' Cultural Heritage]
Ibarasone Daidai Kagura Dance Preservation Society
Content: It is said that when the vassal of the Nagao family, the Shugodai in Echigo, settled around Ibarasone four hundred and scores of years ago, after serving at Izumo Taisha and Kyoto, he passed the tradition on to this Ward, and it has since been preserved at Suwa Shrine by its parishioners.
There are twenty dances such as Chikyurakunomai, Sakakinomai, and Kamiisaminomai.
name Uchinuma Shishi Dance
Event date Uchinuma Shrine Fall Festival: August 30 - 31, 2016
Area North Ward
Remarks [Citizens' Cultural Heritage]
There are various theories about the beginning of the Shishi Dance. Since there are old documents that indicate that the Shishi Dance and Kagura Dance were performed in 1861 (Bunkyu 1), it is known that it has been performed since the Edo period.
The Uchinuma Shishi Dance belongs to the lineage of the wind, where three dancers put on their lion heads perform dynamic dances as a trio.
Accompanying the Shishi are those who play the roles of flower hats: plum, peony and chrysanthemum, and the beat is performed with a flute and a drum. There are two types of programs: "Mai" in which only the beat accompanies the flower hats and "Kuse Mai" in which the beat and the song go together.
At the festival, we select sevperiodl songs from each and play them in combination.
The Uchinuma Shishi Dance, which has been handed down to the former Oumiya-gumi (Uchinuma-sankumi) for more than one hundred or two hundred years, is the only one in Kita-ku, Niigata-shi, together with the Kagura Dance that the neighboring former dedicated land (Uchinuma-nikumi) has. It is a local performing art that has been designated as a folk cultural property of the city.
A community consisting of more than thirty houses is a preservation society, which continues to protect this local performing art.
name Umenoki Kagura
Event date August 5 - 6
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura; It is said that people were instructed in Kagura Dance when they pilgrimaged to Ise.
Programs: Exorcism, Hand Dance, Stick Dance, Sword Dance, Michikiri, Mugimaki (wheat sowing) Jiji, Kyogen
name Okubo Kagura
Event date Last Saturday of August
Area North Ward
Remarks In 1856 (Ansei 3), there was a shishi head donation card, so it seems that it was in existence back then. Until the war years 1938-1939 (Showa 13-14), the dance group was working with Taishido Kagura (established in Tensho 1573-1591).
In the Showa 50's, the group was revived, going independent. The dance is dedicated at the festivals at the shrine.
Content: Shishi Kagura
name Ojika Kagura
Event date August 30 - 31
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
It is said that it came from Kaga and that it was later modeled on Taya Kagura.
Programs: Tengu Dance, Kagura Dance, Stick Dance, and Shikata Dance
name Ogijima Kagura
Event date August 23 - 24
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Kagura Dance (Maku Dance, Tengu and Kagura Dances included), Shikata Dance, Hand Dance, Flower Hat Dance, Danshichi Dance
Previously there was Saedori Sashi.
name Ozashiki Daikagura
Event date First Saturday and Sunday of September
Area Kounan Ward
Remarks About 250 years ago, villagers went pilgrimage to Ise where they learned the kagura.
Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Miyanobori, Suzu Dance, Heisoku Dance, Maku Dance, Shikata Dance, Kitsu Jinku, Ise Dance, Danshichi Dance, Stick Dance
name Kakurozu Kagura
Event date August 26 - 27
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
Exorcism Shishi Kagura and Flower Hat Dance are dedicated.
The Shishi head here is said to have been made from the Ise amulets gathered from the four villages of Kakurozu, Sanmaigata, Mitsuya, and Osawari.
name Kase Kagura
Event date August 26 - 27
Area Konan Ward
Remarks Kase Kagura Preservation Society
Exorcism Shishi Dance is performed.
This Shishi Dance has been passed down since the end of the Edo period. It is still danced at the festival at Shiwa Shrine.
Content: Shishi Dance
name Kamakura Kagura
Event date April 19, August 19
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
About 150 years ago, when cholera spread, the Shishi head was received from a Kagura Dance from Shinshu and it was danced for the first time at the Shinmeigu Shrine.
Programs: Yakubarai Dance, Tama-asobi, Shiguruma, Heisoku Dance, and Suzu Dance.
name Kawai Kagura Dance
Event date August 18 - 19
Area Nishikan Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
It is said that Gonjuro Tsuchida, who went away from home to work in the early Meiji period, passed down the kagura.
Programs: Shikata Dance, Heisoku Dance, Shizume Dance, and Shakujo Dance, and Suzu Dance. There is an entertainment called Shinbokoudaiji.
Niigata City designated cultural property.
name Kawaguchi Kagura
Event date August 26 - 27
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
It is said that they learned the kagura from a giant deer in Nizu during the Kaei years.
Programs: Shishi Dance, Tengu Dance, Hand Dance, Stick Dance, Flower Hat Dance, Shikata Dance, Torisashi, Mugimaki
name Kawane Kagura
Event date August 21 - 22
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
It is said that the kagura was passed down from Kingo in the early Meiji period.
Programs: Kagura Dance, Hand Dance, Sword Dance, Miyanobori Dance
name Kawaneyachi Shishi Dance
Event date First Saturday of September
Area Konan Ward
Remarks Kawaneyachi Kagura Preservation Society
It is the only three-Shishi Dance in the Yokogoe area, and is performed as an bad luck and demon exorcism at the autumn festival.
Content: Three-Shishi
It is said that about 250 years ago, when a sickness spread in the village, they learned from Kita Kanbara the three-Shishi Dance to exorcise the devil.
Programs: Exorcism and Asakusa Dance
name Garameki Kagura
Event date August 21 - 22
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Garameki Entertainment Preservation Society programs: Okazaki Dance, Hand Dance, New Sword Dance, Sakaki Dance, Flower Dedication Dance, Hanekaeri Dance, Hiruko Dance, Daikoku Dance
There used to be Tengu Dance and Tayu Dance.
name Gawakesawa Kagura
Event date August 25 - 26
Area Akiba Ward1 Akiba Ward2
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
It is held jointly at Shinmeigu Shrine and Suwa Shrine. There used to be Tama-asobi Kagura.
name Kizaki Kagura
Event date Third Saturday and Sunday of September
Area Kita Ward
Remarks [Citizens' Cultural Heritage]
It is a black-painted Kagura and is also called “Men's Kagura”.
Since Kizaki used to be on the highway of a post town, it is said that the kagura was taught by a rickshaw puller from Aizu.
Kagura, which had been discontinued, was revived in 1974 (Showa 49). Since then, it has been handed down as a traditional performing art in Kita Ward.
Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Kagura Dance, Yotsukiri Dance, Taitsuri (sea bream fishing)
name Kurumaba Kagura
Event date Last Saturday and Sunday of August
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
It is said that the kagura was handed down to Tsugawa about 120 years ago.
Programs: Kagura, Flower Hat Dance, Hand Dance, Danshichi Dance, Spear and Sword, and Double Sword
name Koma Hachiman Shrine Tayu Dance
Event date August 25
Area Nishikan Ward
Remarks Content: Torimono Kagura.
Twelve dances of Tayu Dance are dedicated in front of the shrine at the autumn festival. In recent years, the Bon Dance and Nodojiman (karaoki) competitions have been held together.
name Kosugi Kagura
Event date Last Saturday of August
Area Enan Ward
Remarks Kosugi Kagura Preservation Society
A villager went to Ise pilgrimage and bought a Shishi head.
It is said that he learned to imitate Kagura of Taishido in Toyoe City.
Programs: Maku Dance, Sword Dance, and Shikata Dance
name Furuta Kagura
Event date August 24 - 25
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Maku Dance, Sword Dance, Suzu Dance, Stick Dance, Tengu Dance
There used to be Shikata Dance, Hand Dance, Flower Hat Dance, and Sword Dance.
name Kodokamigura Kagura
Event date Last Saturday and Sunday of August
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Exorcism Kagura Dance, Shikata Dance, and Stick Dance are dedicated.
name Koyaba Tayu Dance
Event date August 25 - 26
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Torimono Kagura
Programs: Sakaki Dance, Flower Dedication Dance, Murakumo Dance, Kagamizukuri Dance, Shihogatame Dance, Small Bow Dance, Hagaeshi Dance, Five-sword Dance, Ebisu Dance, Jiwari Dance, Daikoku Dance
name Konashiba Shishi Dance
Event date August 30 - 31
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Three-Shishi
Programs: Hanami Dance, Higashikudari Dance, Mugimaki (wheat sowing), Dojosukui (loach scooping), Taitsuri (sea bream fishing), Daikoku-sama
name Sakaemachi Kagura
Event date August 19, August 20
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Main Dance, Sword and Curtain, Suzu Dance
Dedicated to Horide Shrine during the Niitsu summer festival. They protect and lead the mikoshi and return to the shrine while purifying all of the town.
name Sanbaishi Kagura
Event date First Saturday and Sunday of September
Area Konan Ward
Remarks Sanbaishi Kagura is a rare hand-made Kagura in which a large mouth made of two rice straw bags, a nose of a pumpkin, eyes of eggplants, hair of Kumazasa, and teeth of split bamboo shoot pasted together by gold paper. It is newly made every autumn for the festival.
The kagura is dedicated to the shrine and goes around the households, dancing to the flute and drum.
At the end of the festival, Kagura is washed down the Koagano River while the locals watch it.
This kagura first appeared around 1897 (Meiji 30). In a difficult life following floods, people gave up their dream of buying kagura. It is said that young people brought Sanbaishi and a mosquito net and started a lively humorous dance in front of a large number of parishioners, which is considered to be the beginning of the kagura.
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name Shimogoya Kagura
Event date August 26 - 27
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Gohaibu Dance, Suzu Dance, Stick Use, Shikata Dance, Hand Dance, Stick Dance, Flower Hat Dance, and Mugimaki (wheat sowing)
name Shojakuno Kagura
Event date September 6
Area Kita Ward
Remarks During the famine and epidemic in the Tenpo years (1830-1844), the lord Murakami ordered the sculptor Ippei to make a large number of Shishi heads and gave them to the farmers, who gave them to the shrines in the villages. It is said that the farmers were saved from hunger and their illness subsided when they dedicated the dance of exorcism and prayer for good harvest. Upon hearing this, Lord Endo Shichiemon Shudo (1793-1850) dispatched Jozaemon and Kondo Shichirohei of Shojo to Murakami, begging Ippei to teach them Kagura. It is said that they went to Kizaki to learn the dance. Among the dances, Yotsukiri Dance is said to have been learned during the Keio era (1865-1868) when Okuda Izaemon of Shinshu Ueda went on a Sword Dance tour with four travel actors.
Niigata City designated cultural property
Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Kagura Dance and Yotsukiri Dance (It is said that in the old days there were also Stick Dance, Hand Dance, and Mamemaki (seed sowing)).
name Zendo Kagura
Event date August 21 - 22
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Maku Dance, Heisoku Dance, Suzu Dance, Maku Dance, Shikata Dance
It is said that the Kagura came from Higashi Island about 300 years ago.
name Soumi Kagura
Event date August 26
Area Konan Ward
Remarks It is said that the Kagura was performed during the construction of Soumi Castle during the Keicho era.
Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Suzu Dance, Maku Dance, Sword Dance, Yotsukiri Dance
name Sone Daidai Kagura
Event date April 20
Area Nishikan Ward
Remarks Content: Torimono Kagura
It was started in 1907 (Meiji 40) by Suwa-ko at Suwa Shrine. Since it originated under the guidance of Iwamoto Masato of Katahigashi Village, it is said to be the same type of dance as the Akatsuka, Kamiyama, Ajikata, and Ibarasone Dance.
Programs: Miyakiyo, Kamiisa, Exorcism, Ama-no-ukibashi (heavenly floating bridge), Kaijin (sea god), Kagamitsukuri (mirror making), Sword Dance, Hisanado, Hohei, Ebisu, Small Bow Play, Okokuninushi (great country lord)
There are a total of 12 dances, whereas previously there also used to be children dances such as Sword Dance, Flower Dedication, Hanekaeshi, etc.
name Taianji Kagura
Event date August 23 - 24
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Kagura Dance (Exorcism, Okazaki Dance, and Shikata Dance), Four Sword Dance, Flower Hat Dance, Hand Dance, Mugimaki (wheat sowing), Ohsaiya, Taianji Jinku
Kagura and Hyottoko Dance together.
name Taika Kagura
Event date August 27 - 28
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
It was started during the Kansei era to raise funds for the rebuilding of Taya Kyushoji Temple.
Programs: Make-up Dance, Maku Dance, Sword Dance, Shikata Dance, Stick Dance, Dantama Dance, Mugimaki (wheat sowing) Jiji, and Maikomi
name Taishido Kagura
Event date Saturday in late April, First Saturday of October
Area Kita Ward
Remarks [Citizens' Cultural Heritage]
Seven ancestors from Kaga Daisho-ji Temple during the Tensho era opened Taishido.
It is the oldest local performing art in Kita Ward, which has a history of over 400 years starting with "Izaya Kagura" brought by them.
Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Kagura Dance, Yotsukiri Dance, Shinbokoudaiji, Jijibaba Mugimaki (wheat sowing), and Stick Dance
name Taino Tayu Dance
Event date August 27 - 28
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Torimono Kagura
Programs: Kagamitsukuri (mirror making) Dance, Ebisu Dance, and Daikoku Dance
name Takamori Izaya Kagura
Event date May 9, October 9
Area Kita Ward
Remarks Tatsumi Kuranosuke, a Buddhist priest in Kyoto who was commissioned to produce Takamori Yakushi Nyorai in 1704 (Hoei 1), arrived by ship in Takamori in 1705 (Hoei 2).
Legend has it that Kuranosuke donated a kagura as a memorial and taught the ancient ritual of "Izaya Kagura" of Kyoto. For 300 years since then, this kagura Dance has been composed of “Makugarami”, “Gohei Dance”, “Suzu Dance”, “Sansaku Sword”, “Tengu Dance”, “Atamazakashi”, and “Shindariikitari”.
Of these, "Atamazakashi" is played on a special occasion of the shrine, while "Shindariikitari" is not played. "Tengu Dance" and "Shindariikitari" are not performed around the village.
Kagura songs accompany “Gohei Dance”, “Suzu Dance”, and “Sanshaku Sword”.
Niigata City designated cultural property
Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Kagura Dance, Yotsukiri Dance
name Takamori Shinden Kagura (Izaya Kagura)
Event date Second Saturday of April, Fourth Saturday of August
Area Kita Ward
Remarks During the spring/autumn festival of Inari Shrine in Takamori Shinden, the kagura is danced for exorcism. In front of the shrine, two sheets of a 5-meter goza are laid and used as a stage.
(It is said that in ancient times, a kagura hall was built on top of a foundation made of gathered mortars.)
The spring festival dance takes place at the shrine on the second Saturday of April in the evening shrine and goes around the district the next day, while in the autumn festival, the dance takes place on the fourth Saturday of August in the evening shrine.
It is said that the kagura originated from the nationwide famine in the middle of the Tempo years (1830-1844), when Master Yamada, who was worried that the number of people migrating for other lands increased, invited a Shinto priest named Izaya from Togakushi Shrine in Shinshu, learned kagura and dance from him, and dedicated it, praying for good harvest and peace.
It was discontinued for a long time but was revived in 1969.
The programs of "Kagura Dance" consist of "Makugarami", "Gohei", "Sword", "Tengu Dance", "Kure Dance", and finally "Yotsukiri Dance". When it was revived, Stick Dance, Jijiyan Babayan (awa sowing), and Tama-asobi were performed as an entertainment, but they are discontinued now.
Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Kagura Dance and Yotsukiri Dance
name Tajima Kagura
Event date August 19, August 22 - 23
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Tengu Dance, Kagura Dance (Maemaku, Suzumaku, and Gomaku), and Stick Use
It is said that the kagura originated in the Keian years after the village was developed.
It was discontinued for a while but revived in 1978 (Showa 53).
name Tamon Kagura
Event date September 7 - 8 (Inari Shrine), October 9 (Kaichi Shrine)
Area Kita Ward
Remarks In 1757 (Horeki 7), in the reign of Ieshige who came to power after Tokugawa Yoshimune, Endo Shichiro Zaemon Munetoshi and Tomotoshi, the village headman and his son in Kuzuzuka, submited a request, despite the opposition of local leaders in Mizuhara, an imperial land, and merchants in Shibata, to Mizuhara's magistrate office, saying that they would like to open a market in Kuzuzuka so that Fukushimagata, an area where there was not much traffic, would prosper.
In 1861 (Horeki 11), permission was granted to open a market and Rokusai Market came into being, a beginning of Kuzuzuka Market that has continued to this day.
When the village headman and his son brought back a permit to oepn a market from Mizuhara's magistrate office, people in the town of Kuzuzuka danced kagura in joy with the covers on both sides of a rice barrel on top of their heads, which is said to be the beginning of Tamon Kagura.
Since then, the town of Kuzuzuka has prospered, with the number of the households and the size of the population increasing over time.
The kagura is dedicated to Inari Shrine in Kuzuzuka every year on September 7 and 8 when they have a festival.
NIigata City designated cultural property
Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Nihon Dance, Yonhon Dance, Hachihon Dance, Suzu Dance, Onbe Dance, and Ire Dance
name Inashima Kagura
Event date April 25, September 15
Area Nishikan Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
Niigata City designated cultural property
name Naori Izya Kagura
Event date August 29 - 30
Area Konan Ward
Remarks Naori Izya Kagura Preservation Society
During the Kaei years when the village was struck with a pestilence, Toyoshima Hanshichi brought a kagura from Shinshu as a form of exorcism.
This is said to be the beginning of the kagura.
Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Sword Dance, God Dance, Tengu Dance, and Entertainment Dance
name Nakasinden Kagura
Event date August 25 - 26
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Kagura Dance, Hand Dance, Flower Hat Dance, Big Sword Dance, Four-sword Dance
There used to be a Tengu Dance as well.
name Nagato Kagura (Izaya Kagura)
Event date Fourth Saturday of August
Area Kita Ward
Remarks It is also called "Soshiro Kagura" after the name of the person who brought the kagura to the place. It is said to be a brother kagura of the kagura of Kayama.
Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Kagura Dance, Yotsukiri Dance, Hand Dance (Shinbosai), Stick Dance, Small Hat Dance, Big Hat Dance
name Choba Kagura
Event date Third Saturday of August
Area Kita Ward
Remarks [Citizen Group-san]
There were a series of floods, which led to years of no crops. Kanbei, who was a dedicated farmer, thought that the problems happened because devils attacked the village and he came up with an idea of driving away the evil spirits with kagura dancing. This is the beginning of the kagura.
Another theory has it that the kagura started in 1894 (Meiji 27) with the purpose of preventing juvenile delinquency.
This is a local art designated as the city's intangible folk cultural property.
Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Kagura Dance, Yotsukiri Dance, Hand Dance (Shinbosai), and Stick Dance
name Nanokamachi Kagura
Event date Last Saturday and Sunday of August
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: During the Kyoho years, when the village shrine was rebuilt, the kagura was brought from Fushimi, Kyoto.
Programs: Exorcism, Okazaki Dance, Tengu Dance, Yotsukiri Dance, Danshichi, Oiwake, Stick Dance, So Jinku, Kagura Jinku
name Niida Shishi Dance (Niida Kagura)
Event date June 15 - 16
Area Minami Ward
Remarks Ogawa Renchu
Content: Shishi Kagura; The kagura is performed as a form of exorcism at a shrine festival.
name Nishishirane Kagura
Event date Performance Dates: August 27 - 28
Area Minami Ward
Remarks Nishishirane Kagura Preservation Society
Content: Shishi Kagura; Near the end of the Meiji period, the Takahashi family in Ajikatamura Shirane visited Kyoto and Ise and bought a Shishi head, and after they came back, they started their Kagura Dance.
It was often performed until the first half of the Showa era, but due to the difficulty in finding the successors, it was discontinued in 1965 (Showa 40) and revived in 1985 (Showa 60), and has continued to this day.
A video record of the performance was created in the village in 1994 and 1995.
name Nishijima Kagura
Event date Last Saturday and Sunday of August
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
During the Tenpo years the kagura was brought back from Aizu, Fukushima.
Programs: Kagura Dance, Shikata Dance, Hand Dance, Tengu Dance, and Okame Dance
name Nunome Kagura Dance
Event date April 26
Area Nishikan Ward
Remarks It is said to be a female kagura, and the Shishi head is small and the dance is quiet, and it is a dance that was performed before the opening of "Ama-no-Iwato (Heaven's Rock Gate)".
At the spring festival the Kagura Dance is dedicated to Suwa Shrine and after that goes around the village. Sometimes the kagura is performed on happy occasions.
It begins with a dance by two people followed by Heisoku Dance and a dance by one person holding a tin cane and an act of exorcism by two people.
Niigata City's designated cultural property.
name Higashishima Kagura
Event date August 27 - 28
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
It is said that the kagura was brought from Iwaki City in Fukushima Prefecture to Higashishima via Tsugawa about 350 years ago.
Programs: Kagura Dance, Sword Dance, and Hand Dance
name Himizu Kagura
Event date August 27
Area Konan Ward
Remarks The person in charge of the year in Himizu Area
It began during the Joyo years. It is said to be a kagura that goes back to the Ryokawamura Kase Kagura.
Content:Shishi Kagura
Programs: Miyanobori, Maikomi, Exorcism, and Shishi Dance
name Furutsu Kagura
Event date April 26
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
It is said that the kagura dates from before the Kamakura period, but there is no documentary proof.
During the festival they have exorcism, Miyanobori, and Dedication Dance.
Programs: Kagura, Suzu Dance, and Furutsu Jinku.
name Maki Kagura Dance
Event date June 14 - 16
Area Nishikan Ward
Remarks Content: It is a dance performed at the festival at Maki Jinmeigu as a Mikoshi (the portable shrine) leaves the shrine.
Kagura Dance was a two-person dance, and it was customary to dance in front of the main shrine, as well as at the house of Omodachi-shu (leaders).
It used to be performed at the fireworks display until it was over.
Kagura Dances include Shihou Dance and Heisoku Dance.
There are also Stick Dance, Maki Jinku, and Ebomushi as an entertainment art.
Niigata City's designated cultural property.
name Matsuyama Kagura Dance
Event date May 2, October 27
Area Nishikan Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura; It was first performed in 1906 (Meiji 39).
The Kagura Dance is performed by two people. An explanation is given in the beginning and Shiho Dance, Heisoku Dance and Suzu Dance were performed in this order.
Heisoku Dance and Suzu Dance were performed by one person.
Programs: Shiho Dance, Heisoku Dance, and Suzu Dance
Niigata City's designated cultural property
name Manganji Shishi Dance
Event date First Saturday and Sunday of September
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks [Citizens' Cultural Heritage]
Manganji Shishi Dance has been performed for over 200 years since the latter part of the Edo period.
At one time the number of members decreased to such a degree that the kagura was on the verge of going extinct. However, it was revived in 1976 (Showa 51) and has continued to this day.
Currently, not only children but also elderly people dance this Shishi Dance and take part in events and recitals in other areas as well.
The kagura, which almost disappeared at one time, was revived and continued by the local community. Attempts have been made, in cooperation with other local communities, to hand down the tradition to posterity, which is contributing to the revitalization of local culture.
name Yui Kagura
Event date August 29 - 30
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Programs: Kagura, Stick Dance, Hand Dance, Ise Dance, Katana Dance, Sword Dance, Flower Hat Dance, Monster Dance, Torisashi, Shiho Dance, Danshichi Dance, Boshino, and Yui Jinku
name Yamatani Kagura
Event date February 26, August 26 - 27
Area Akiba Ward
Remarks Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Kagura Dances (Maku Dance, Sword Dance, Exorcism, and Tengu Dance), Shiho Dance, Katana Dance
There used to be Tama-asobi, Stick Use, Stick Dance, and manzai.
name Yokogoshi Shrine Dedication Kagura
Event date Last Saturday and Sunday of August
Area Konan Ward
Remarks Yokogoshishita Arts Preservation Society
It was brought to Kitakanbara in the early part of the Meiji period. There are two types of Shishi heads: a male head and a female head with black teeth.
Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Maku Dance, Honhei Dance, Sword Dance, Shikiri Dance, and Suzu Dance
name Yokogoshi Shrine Dedication Kagura
Event date Last Saturday and Sunday of August
Area Konan Ward
Remarks Yokogoshinaka Kagura Preservation Society
People learned it from Okubo in Toyosaka City in the middle of the Meiji period.
Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Maku Dance, Sword Dance, Gohei Dance, Suzu Dance, Fight against a Tengu, and Capturing Kagura Alive.
name Yokogoshi Shrine Dedication Kagura
Event date Last Saturday and Sunday of August
Area Konan Ward
Remarks Yokogoshi Kamicho Shrine Dedication Kagura
It was brought from Kitakanbaragun Kyogashima in the latter part of the Edo period. Content: Shishi Kagura
Programs: Yokogoshi Kiyari, Maku Dance, Sword Dance, Kagura Dance, Hand Dance, Stick Dance, Okazaki Dance, Danshichi Dance, and Shiho Dance