Traditions of Nara
5 traditions tied to Nara.
🇯🇵 Kyoto, JapanTorii鳥居
A traditional Japanese gate marking the entrance to a Shinto shrine and separating the sacred from the mundane.Spiritual
🇯🇵 Kyoto, JapanKyōgen狂言
A traditional Japanese comic theatre of short farces, spoken dialogue and satirePerformance
🇯🇵 Tokyo, JapanDaijō-sai大嘗祭
The emperor's once-in-a-reign Shinto rite of thanks for the rice harvestSpiritual
🇯🇵 Kyoto, JapanKimono着物
Japan's national dress: a wrapped robe with square sleeves, tied with a wide sashDress
🇯🇵 Kyoto, JapanNoh能 (Nō)
Japanese masked dance-drama, staged since the 14th century in family schoolsPerformance
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Torii: JordyMeow, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kyōgen: Corpse Reviver, CC BY 3.0, source
- Daijō-sai: Abasaa, Public domain, source
- Kimono: Takaaki Kawai, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Noh: Yoshiyuki Ito, CC BY-SA 3.0, source