ace between humans and gods” (Yamaguchi 58).
Another key concept explained by Yamaguchi that helps us understand how display and performance lend meaning beyond the actual objects being displayed is the concept of behind yama. The objects being displayed or performed are really only stand-ins for other meanings to which their particular exhibition refers. The display or exhibition themselves are artifice, but they are used as manifestations of something that is real. For example, the clothing changed on the figurines known as osira-sama represents not the change of costume but the change of spirituality since changing the clothes purifies the household. As noted by Yamaguchi (59) “Figuri
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