Kagura Mastery

The power to be a master of Kagura, either innately or through training. Variation of Performance Art Mastery and Dancing Mastery.
==Also Called==
* Kagure Expertise/Intuition/Proficiency
==Capabilities==
The user, either innately or through training, is a master of Kagura, a specific type of Shinto ritual ceremonial dance. The phrase is a contraction of "kami no kura (seat of god)", indicating the presence of a god in the practice. One major function of Kagura is "Chinkon (purifying and shaking the spirit).", involving a procession-trance process. Usually, a female shaman will perform the dance and obtain the oracle from the god----in the setting, the dancer herself turns into a god during the performance. Once strictly a ceremonial art derived from kami'gakari (神懸 (かみがかり), "oracular divinification"), kagura has evolved in many directions over the span of more than a millennium. Today, it is very much a living tradition, with rituals tied to the rhythms of the agricultural calendar.
There are two major types of kagura: mai and odori. Mai presents the slow circular movement, stressing quiet and elegance; While odori presents quick leaping and jumping, stressing activation and energy. The two types can be understood as two phrases of kagura----the mai is a preparation process for trance and odori is the unconscious trance stage. During mai dance, the female shaman, surrounded by a group of priests, holds gohei (a ceremonial wand used to cleanse or purify) as well as other sound producing instruments and engages with circling movement to summon deities. Once the female shaman enters a possessed status, she switches into spontaneous leaping movements, which is called odori.
==Applications==
*God Summoning
*Purification
*Ritual Manipulation
*Shintoism Mastery
==Associations==
* Dancing Mastery
* Mystical Dancing
* Performance Art Mastery
* Shinto Mysticism
==Limitations==
* May require a certain amount of training or exposure.
* May take time to achieve mastery.
==Known Users==
*Suzaku Himejima (Highschool DxD/Slash Dog)
*Ame no Uzume (Japanese Mythology)
*Kamado Family (Kimetsu no Yaiba); via Hinokami Kagura
**Sumiyoshi
**Tanjuro Kamado
**Tanjiro Kamado
==Gallery==
Suzaku_Himejima 2.jpg|Suzaku Himejima (Highschool DxD/Slash Dog) has immense talent in Kagura.
Tanjuro_performs_the_Hinokami_Kagura.gif|The Kamado Family (Kimetsu no Yaiba) has a special kagura that their ancestor devised from the Sun Breathing, which has been passed down from father to son for generations.
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