Thames Festival Carnival Upper Ground Southwark
The Oshu Kanatsu-Ryu Shishi-Odori Dance Troupe are a group of fourteen dancers who stage a folk performance from the Tohoku (north-east) region of Japan, an area that was devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Each dancer beats a taiko drum hung at the waist, and wears a carved wooden shishi-gashira (deer mask) adorned with real deer horns and hair taken from horsetails. Dancers carry sasara on their backs, which consist of sliding screen paper on bamboo, measuring over three metres in length, and represent the purification strips used in Shinto ceremonies.
Size: 3400px × 5100px
Location: Thames Festival Upper Ground Southwark London England UK Europe
Photo credit: © photony1 / Alamy / Afripics
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