How to Survive Lion Dance and Monkey Dance

Unrecorded, Japanese

Top: Lion Dance Under Red Plum Blossoms, 1730-1740

Bottom: Monkey Dance Under White Plum Blossoms, 1730-1740

One of a pair of 6-fold screens ink, color, and gold pigment on paper

Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund

Group 1

First, you should have fun at the Japanese Halloween costume party by eating candy and dancing.

Then, don’t be bad or you can’t dance with everyone, and you will be kept in the house. The only way to get out is if you are nice and never steal money.

Next, you might think about what candy you like, find it, and eat it.

Last, we recommend that you be nice to the dragon, or he will not be nice to you.

Group 2

First, you get stuck in the picture with nine levels. This picture transports you back to a very long time ago. The people inside are just watching. Level one is to get through the door. Level four is to help the people to write music.

Then, you get past level four. This is when there is a dragon, beware! The dragon is from Ohio. We luckily have two sticks that we can use to fight off the dragon.

Next, you have to make friends in level five. They even let you keep their swords. Their sword is a powerful one.

Last, you will reach the final level. The people there are trying to escape too. At first you might be afraid of them because they have spears, but then you will join forces. The dragon turns nice and flies you to the moon. Then, because you are so zoomed out, you can jump back to Earth and jump back to where you live.