Sato-kagura, Village Shinto dance, Fuchu, Tokyo

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Edo-no-sato-kagura, Edo Times’ village Shinto dance playing at Okunitama-jinja Shrine, Fuchu, Tokyo, at Tori-no-ichi, the Festival of Bird.
20 November 2012, at Okunitama-jinja Shrine, Fuchu, Tokyo, we saw theSato-kagura, Village Shinto dance.
The story was the myth of nation-building. The Izanagi-no-mikoto God danced at the returning from the land of the dead where his wife existed. The God purified himself with cold water ablutions at Hyuga country.
The dance repeated alike behaviors manytimes.
Seeing the satge at that time I suddenly realised the origin of word meaning. The myth of nation-building led to the origin of meaning.
Concisely saying, meaning of word is born from repeating as the dance produced the story. This fact strongly hit me.
Now I call the situation of the dance symbolic repetition. This repetion will be the brand new basis of the description for the word by mathematics.

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