List of Important Intangible Folk Cultural Properties

Columns: Name | Date | Remarks | Location
Ainu Ancient Dances ( アイヌ古式舞踊 , ainu koshiki buyō ) | Various times | Twelve types of traditional Ainu dances and nine songs including ritual dances performed during festivals , imitative dances , dances for entertainment only . Many of these are circular dances and accompanied by song | Hokkaido | Ritual Entertainments of Ame no Miya Shrine ( 雨宮の神事芸能 , ame no miya no shinji geinō ) | April 29 , every 3 years | Elegant dances with hayashi flutes and drums aimed at driving away diseases and evil spirits from the fields and praying for abundant crops . The highlight is the piece Hashigagari in which four large lion heads are paraded in front of the shrine | Ame no Miya Shrine , Chikuma , Nagano | Snow Festival ( 雪祭 ) | Anan , Nagano | Ritual entertainments of Nangū Shrine ( 南宮の神事芸能 , nangū no shinji geinō ) | May 4 -5 | Ritual entertainments including ritual rice planting ( otaue ) , mikoshi carrying and ritual dances that serve as a prayer for abundant crops | Nangū Taisha , Tarui , Gifu | Kamikamogawa Sumiyoshi Shrine Shinji Dance ( 上鴨川住吉神社神事舞 , kamikamogawa sumiyoshi jinja shinji-mai ) | First weekend in October | Various forms of entertainment as part of the shrine 's festival , such as : dengaku , noh , sword dances , lion dances , fan dances , and sarugaku | Sumiyoshi Shrine , Kamikamogawa , Katō , Hyōgo | Ritual Entertainments of Kasuga Wakamiya On matsuri ( 春日若宮おん祭の神事芸能 , kasuga wakamiya on matsuri no shinji geinō ) | December 15 -18 | Various entertainments including a presentation of horsemanship skills , kagura , dengaku , bugaku , yamato mai and sarugaku , a form of noh . The festival was initiated by Fujiwara no Tadamichi to welcome and appease the kami in response to a series of floods , famines and disease during the chōshō era | Nara , Nara | Takezaki Kanzeonji Temple 's Shujōe Oni Festival ( 竹崎観世音寺修正会鬼祭 , takezaki kanzeonji shujōe oni matsuri ) | January 2 -3 | A Hadaka Matsuri where men in loinclothes try to stop an oni in a red kimono carrying a box . The event also includes a masked dance of two boys | Tara , Saga | Nagasaki Kunchi Hono-Odori ( 長崎くんちの奉納踊 , nagasaki kunchi no hōnō odori ) | October 7-9 | Part of the Suwa Shrine festival , these are a set of ceremonial dedicatory dances with distinct foreign influences from China , Holland and Portugal : jaodori ( dragon dance ) , lion dance , kujira no shiofuki ( blowing of the whale ) , kokkodesho ( drum dance ) , aranda manzai | Nagasaki , Nagasaki

Example questions:
How many reside in the city where the Ada Shinugu which is the important Intangible Folk Cultural Property of Japan takes place ? | What strait runs between Honshu and the island where the the important Intangible Folk Cultural Property of Japan , the Ainu ancient dances take place ? | How big is the surface of the city where the Snow Festival which is the important Intangible Folk Cultural Property of Japan takes place ? | What was the founding date of the city where the Kamikamogawa Sumiyoshi Shrine Shinji Dance which is the important Intangible Folk Cultural Property of Japan takes place ?

Answers:
4,908 | Tsugaru Strait | 123.07 square kilometres | March 20 , 2006