Leave the city for a week in the countryside. What I felt through farm work and bamboo cutting was the physical inconvenience. As a healthy person, why am I inconvenient? Life there was an area where "adults who can make anything by themselves" could play an active role. Threshing in the rice field, repairing agricultural machinery, cooking every day, all of these things require physical activity to make a living. In such an environment, I created a lion dance that imbues the body with that movement.

As a new challenge for this lion dance, we asked the other two members of Shishi no Toothbrush to be involved remotely to create the lion dance. The lion head, the body, and even the musical instruments were made over and over again. In the performance of lion dance, there is an interlocking effect in which the musical accompaniment (bamboo) attached to the lion plays a sound at the same time as the lion dances. The sound is not something you make for the sake of it, but something that naturally sounds between the nature of Kamiyama and your body trying to connect with it.

The form of this lion dance overlaps with how the residents of Kamiyama-cho, including the clever farmers who can make anything by themselves, know how to prepare delicious food, and can smoothly cut down bamboo, deal with natural resources. Food is not all “products” sold at supermarkets. I felt that even rice is made into edible rice through various processes such as harvesting, threshing, drying and polishing. . I was surprised that this is the only rice that can be harvested in such a vast rice field! By doing both helping farmers and making lions, I feel that I have acquired the power to live as a person who can make something from scratch. It can be said that we were able to create a new approach in the sense of creating a lion that springs up from the life of the land.

The performance time in Kamiyama-cho was a little over two hours in total, including the first half and the second half. The weight of the shishigashira was a little heavy, and since I was walking barefoot and feeling the ground, it was difficult to walk on the gravel road and perform for a long time. One by one, I set the gates and made my way around unfamiliar houses, which made people happy. As the second half progressed, the pattern of the flow of the performance was formed, and it became something that did not bore the viewer. It can be said that the possibility of shishimai inhabitation was quite high at the time when direct communication between people was established.

On the other hand, as much as I was conscious of other people, I was less aware of myself and less likely to enter a trance state where I was manipulated by the environment. I think the only time I was in that state was during the first and last performances in the rice fields. The characteristic of Kamiyama is that it is a world where you can live only when you are supported by the eyes of people who take care of you and watch over you warmly. When an ambulance was running, there was a scene where everyone would ask, "Who was the one who was taken?" (September 25th to October 2nd, 2022)