Yoshihama’s Kashima Dance, Ashigara’s Sasara Dance (1971)

吉浜の鹿島踊 足柄ささら踊

The Kashima Dance is performed in the area of Kanagawa Prefecture extending from Odawara City along the western shore of Sagami Bay. This film documents a dedication of the dance on the grounds of Yoshihama’s Soga Shrine performed in August by twenty-five people. The film also records the Sasara women’s dance which the women’s association and the elders of Minami Ashigara City in the west of Kanagawa Prefecture revived after a fifty-year hiatus

Date of release
1971-10-10
Runtime
32m
Director
Shinkichi Noda

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