2017 Volume 46 Pages 45-56
In thie paper we show why a restored folk entertainment, Ohmagarimaha Shishimai, a lion dance, which had been suffered severely in the tsunami, was performed on the stage more 4 times a year, 2012, than before the Great East Japan Earthquake. A lot of people wanted to see that folk performing art as “a symbol of the revival”, so asked the perfoming group of that entertainment to do the dance a few years after the disaster. The performing group plays the performing art dance in return for the support for the sufferers. The performing group is made up of the junior high school alumni, and they participate in performances to keep an equal relationship among members.
