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Eisa

Okinawan community performance connects lunar Bon observances, song and dance with local traditions, post-war festivals and contemporary staged forms.

Elongated group of Bon Odori dancers in colourful summer clothing

Obon

Obon is a summer period for welcoming, honouring, and sending off ancestral spirits through household, temple, cemetery, fire, and dance practices.

Pale female ghost in a white robe fading into an empty background

Yūrei

Yūrei are spirits of the dead whose unfinished attachments, violent deaths, or improper treatment keep them present among the living.