Ori Kagura is a solemn Shinto ritual performed at Kifune Shrine in Ouri in Ohi Village, Miyagi Prefecture. It is designated as a village’s cultural property. Kifune Shrine was founded in 1443 by transferring the deity from Kashiwagi in present Sendai City. Ori Kagura, together with the children mikoshi parade, is dedicated to the deity at the annual festival of the shrine on September 1 on the lunar calendar.

In around 1877, the villagers invited Nanbu Kagura dancers from Iwate Prefecture and Kizaemon Ishikawa and other 8 people learned the kagura dance from them. Following the tradition of the Nanbu Kagura style, the repertoire of Ori Kagura is composed of three categories; Shinmaimono (sacred dances), Gunkimono (military epics) and Dokemono (comical plays).

The shrine was damaged by fire in 1877 and all the utensils of the kagura except masks went up in flames. However the kagura dance was revived in two years by the donation of the local people.