This week on Friday Night History: Dance and the Gods, Part One.

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This week on Friday Night History: A Retrospective on One Year of the Podcast!

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This week on #FridayNightHistory: Dance and the Gods, an Introduction to a series on Miwa-ryu, a northern tradition of ritual dance at Shinto shrines. (UPDATED 29 October owing to a technical error that cut off several minutes of audio in the original upload)

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Welcome, #FridayNightHistory listeners, to the first episode of Cleyera: Conversations on Shinto. Zoe (Cora) and I, two friends and practitioners of Shinto in the anglosphere, talk about their faith, its cultural, historical, and other contexts, and try to bring knowledge and community to others.

In this inaugural episode, we talk about some major terms relevant to Shinto, questions of Great Nature and kegare, discuss some of where we're coming from, and touch on some directions for future discussions.

This week on Friday Night History: Jōgezan

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This week on Friday Night History: The Fox Osan of the Six Spears.

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This week on Friday Night History: Shin'emon Inari Shrine. The bay that rendered one of Japan's greatest poets speechless, an island with a reputation, and one little shrine's very big history. This episode was recorded before a live audience at twitch.tv/riversidewings.

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This week on Friday Night History: The Fox Iroha of Okarimiya. A shrine, a fox, and a place in Sendai where the rules of the mundane world wear a bit thin. This episode was recorded before a live audience at twitch.tv/riversidewings.

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This week on Friday Night History: Kashikobuchi. A yokai, the Hirose River, and a strange convergence with real-world higher education in central Sendai. This episode was recorded before a live audience at twitch.tv/riversidewings.

(A quick note at the top here. This week's episode focuses on the folktale of the jorogumo of Kashikobuchi. This being was a benevolent, supernatural spider being who lived on the banks of the Hirose River. I won't be including images of spiders, nor will I be namedropping the word spider itself beyond a brief, cursory mention. This is because jorogumo are jorogumo, not real-world arachnids. Still, if you need to stop listening, please feel free, and I will see you next week. Please, friend, now more than ever, be good to yourself.)

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This week on Friday Night History: The Cat Who Would be God. This episode was recorded before a live audience at twitch.tv/riversidewings.

(A quick note at the top here. The topic of consideration here is a cat that was, sadly, killed-- but our story is about that cat's enshrinement, how the deified cat got the last laugh, and how this interfaces with folk beliefs about supernatural cats.  Please listen accordingly.)

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