The tradition
The Devil's Sword Dance (鬼剣舞, onikenbai) is a sword dance usually performed by a group of eight dancers, especially popular in northeastern Japan. It is so called because the dancers wear face masks which look like demons (鬼, oni).¶
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Devil's sword dance”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.¶
Devil's Sword Dance is type of dance, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.1¶
The source record links this tradition to 3 external registers, which can be verified through the citation.1¶
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What it mixes with
Artists and institutions
Sources
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| Wikidata: Devil's Sword Dance (Q5267453) | database | Wikidata |
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