Ainu dancing in 1897

Depiction in an Edo era illustrated book showing "the curious practices in barbarian lands" aka Hokkaido

edm/dance/hiphop/downtempo

look at the size of their feet

Nonetheless, their ancestors would somehow be coming from today’s Northeastern China (Manchuria) to North Korea.

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Weirdly resembles Alevite ritual dance from Turkey. Alevite population kept Shamanistic traditions of their Turkish ancestors from Central Asia and meshed them with Islamic belief system.

What does the guy with the staff in the center do? Beat people who aren’t dancing right?

Oooh nice

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, by Isabella L. Bird

This is a dance I can do

Cool.