Korobase Mask Kentoku Japan’s oldest court music and

Japan’s oldest court music and dance traditions

Otafuku (阿多福) is a popular figure in folk tales and paired with a male caricature called Hyottoko and podgy cheeks

This yearly event is the source of the current Setsubun festival

This beautiful Japanese mask

and those wishing to get married

Korobase Mask Kentoku Japan’s oldest court music andJapanese Korobase Mask Description Korobase ( ) depicts cranes in Bugaku, an official court dance of Japan, dating as far back as 500 C. E. In the Heian period, nearly all ceremonies and festivals included a Bugaku dance. These dances were important in appeasing the gods, purifying the village, and summoning the gods for rain or a good harvest. The Korobase dance, also called Tsurumai (Crane Dance), is a slow, quiet dance involving four dancers in