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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The Central Powers alliance of the First World War did NOT include which of the following?

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Vik Muniz embraces the concept of ____________

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