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

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

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