Describe the shishi-mai. What is its purpose?
What will be an ideal response?
ANS:Shishi-mai is a popular Shinto dance known as the lion dance. Performers
costume themselves as lions and dance through villages. The purpose is to bring good luck to
the observers and performers.
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a. true b. false
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