International Shishi-mai

Hi, we have a big group of foreign students every year, we had them on 4th and 5th of July.

This year we gave them a surprising present. It was "Japanese Shishi mai".

It is traditional lion dance when we have a festival in shrine.

But our Shishi mai is a kind of fake, because the flute player can play only one

phrase, the lion does not know the correct choreography, and the drumer

beats at random.

Woul you like to see our embarrassing Shishi mai photo?



Our show felled flat........ But we revenged. Shishi walk around the audience and gave them soft bites.

It was a kind of hit.



Well, I show you the real, non-fake Shishimai.


They are so cool! I wish our amateur Shishimai will be like them someday....

Kayoko Hirakawa