蛇踊

Japanese

Kanji in this term
じゃ
Grade: S
おど(り)
Grade: S

Alternative forms

Noun

蛇踊 (hiragana じゃおどり, rōmaji jaodori)

  1. dragon dance, a traditional Chinese folk dance, also performed in Nagasaki and other places
  2. snake dance, part of a Hopi religious ritual that involves handling rattle snakes

References

  • 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  • 2012, Kenkyusha's English-Japanese Dictionary for the General Reader (Third Edition), Tōkyō, Kenkyusha, →ISBN
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