"In May of Genroku 4 (1691), Mishimaya Zenshiro and Takeda Danji of Hamamura (today's Oaza Taura Town) were on their way back from a visit to Ise when they saw and were deeply impressed by the bale dance and spear dance at Taura, a place with the same name in Chikuzen Province (today's Fukuoka Prefecture), and begged to be taught. 　As soon as he returned home, he taught the bale dance to children between the ages of 7 - 8 and 12 -13, and the spear dance to young people between the ages of 17 -18 and 22 -23, and made them skilled at it, so that they could perform it as entertainment to pray for rain, celebrate good harvest, and other celebrations and events. 　This bale dance is an elegant nostalgic dance with musical instruments such as shamisen, drums, tsuzumi, and flutes, and also with the accompaniment of doujiko (street clapping) and preliminaries, and is said to be a dance to celebrate the complete payment of annual tribute rice (tax) in ancient times.