Nishimonai Bon Odori Dance - Japanese Dance for the Dead

[MattyTheMole]

Hello, I am "Inde" also known as Apache Native American. We have similiar traditons among our dancers. Our Crown Dancers also wear a mask of the dead during our Gaan dances which guard from bad spirits entering each dancers soul while the dancers preform sacred medicine in the form of a dance among the earth and everyone involved. Sometimes I like to think my most distant ascestors came from somewhere in Asia. I mean look at us, our eyes and facial structure...

[Chihuahua2Tokyo]

This is kinda scary if you think about it.

[sniperyuri]

bon odori

[jensenfu]

how can you tell witch are girls?

color of robes????

[DreaMxCatch3r]

ahhh. akita. thats too far up north for me. maybe ill go up ther sum time.　おもしろい踊りだな。

[mrnabal17]

al-qaeda dancer???

[thatjapanesegirl]

Wow. I've never seen this kind of Bon odori.

[RoninDave]

not surprised - Tohoku is a different place. During Nebuta a few years ago, I met a guy from Kyoto who told me he couldn't understand when Aomori people spoke to each other. He felt like it was almost another country.

[theuglyninja]

great vids ronin thanks for sharing

[TELEMAKFILMS]

I like ure mask

[iluvwine13]

That was really cool. I like how everone in the community takes part in the dance. Thanks for sharing.

[chimera15]

That one in white and black was hot, but the hat kind of reminds me of that Twilight Zone where everyone on the Earth had deformed faces and everyone thought that was the norm. lol

[chimera15]

Odori baby!!

[ElevenColors]

1:22 samuria...?

Still though, oddly relaxing to watch.

[RoninDave]

dammit I hit the keys in the wrong order - though I could just say that's Akita-ben for samurai

[ElevenColors]

RoninDave,

New feature on YouTube: Automatic recognition of faces and text in videos, with searching and spell checking of the text. Maybe someday.

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

I love bon odori!

Kids and old people and everyone else getting into it!

Nice!

[blackrose504]

beautiful