Japanese Mask Dance | Hyottoko | Okame | Japan | 5 minutes Trip

Details
Title | Japanese Mask Dance | Hyottoko | Okame | Japan | 5 minutes Trip |
Author | Ron Loves Travel |
Duration | 4:12 |
File Format | MP3 / MP4 |
Original URL | https://youtube.com/watch?v=Oq-klmTD9EE |
Description
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Japanese Mask Dance - Hyottoko and Okame
Enjoy joyful japanese mask dance and drama that has been performed at Japanese Shinto shrines for centuries. Audience members at japanese mask dance will be invited to play comical characters of Hyottoko (Funny Man) and Okame (Hyottoko's wife). At Japanese mask dance, they will also have an opportunity to take a role in an adventurous dance-drama, Orochi: Conquer of the Multi-headed Serpent, based on Japan's oldest myth. Surapsari, the native of Japan and accomplished performing artist, takes the audience to the world of Japanese myths full of wonder.
Japanese Mask Dance - Hyottoko and Okame
Japanese masks are used traditionally in theater, festivals or rituals. They are connected to folk myths and tails. Masks represent people, creatures, devil, ghosts, and animals.
Some of the Japanese traditional masks are Gigaku, Bugaku, Gyodo, Tengu, Kappa, Noh, Kyōgen, Shinto, Kagura, Kitsune, Hyottoko, Oni, Kabuki, Samurai, Kendo and Animegao masks.
Japanese Mask Dance - Hyottoko and Okame