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Title A Shamanic medium of Tsugaru / [directed by] Yasuhiro Omori ; [produced by] National Museum of Ethnology
Published Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (1 streaming video (93 min.))
Series Ethnographic video online
Summary "Ms. Taki Kudo says she has been able to connect with deities since she was six or seven years old. Even in modern Japan, mediums like Ms. Kudo are in demand, providing such traditional services as expelling a curse and invoking spirits for health and long life. At twice- annual rituals at Mt. Osore-Zan, she and other female spirit mediums allow the dead to speak through them, relaying insight, comfort and warnings from the deceased to their loved ones. Another important duty is caring for the mulberry-wood Oshirasama puppets representing individual souls. Ms. Kudo dresses and stores the puppets and performs the lively rites in which spirits come down from the mountain in order to protect and purify the people of her village - the deities are cajoled by offerings of food, lights, money and candy."--Container
Event Filmed between Sept. 1991 and March 1993
Notes Closed captioning in English
In Japanese with English subtitles
Print version record
Subject Kudo, Taki
Kudo, Taki.
Women mediums -- Japan
Women and spiritualism -- Japan
Mysticism -- Japan
Manners and customs
Mysticism
Women and spiritualism
Women mediums
Japan -- Religious life and customs
Japan -- Social life and customs.
Japan
Genre/Form documentary film.
Nonfiction films
Ethnographic films
Documentary films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentaires.
Films ethnographiques.
Films autres que de fiction.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
Form Streaming video
Author Omori, Yasuhiro, 1943-
Kudo, Taki
Kokuritsu Minzokugaku Hakubutsukan.
Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)
Other Titles DVD