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===Kagura Service===
[[File:Kagura Service Performers Positions.png|thumb|200px|Positions of the Service Performers in the Kagura Service.]]
The Kagura (also referred to as the Kagura Service) specifically refers to a ritual in which ten dancers—five men and five women—dance with the Jiba-Kanrodai at center while representing each of the [[Providence#Ten Aspects of God's Providence|ten aspects of God the Parent's complete providence]]. Each dancer wears a [[kagura masks|mask]] (either one of two lion masks, four men's masks, or four women's masks). Some dancers wear other specific apparel according to their position. Each dancer dances specific hand movements that symbolically express the aspect of God's providence that they have been assigned to represent.
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:The performers representing ''Izanagi-no-Mikoto'' and ''Izanagi-no-Mikoto'' should be situated at the center, but that is impossible because the Kanrodai stands there. Instead, they perform east of ''Kumoyomi-no-Mikoto'', standing face to face.
The Kagura Service is considered to be a reenactment of God's creation of human beings and its performance is believed to help manifest God's providence that was present at creation so it is directed for the purpose of human salvation. The Kagura is accompanied by the
The Kagura comprises one shift (the first of three) of the Tsutome. Service dancers and performers of the musical instruments (six men and three women for a total of nine) rotate or switch with others with each shift.
The ''Teodori '' is performed after the Kagura. The ''Teodori '' is danced by six other dancers—three men and three women—in a single line. Dancers wear a black crested ''kimono'' (''montsuki''). Unlike the Kagura, they do not wear masks. The ''Teodori '' is accompanied by sections four and five of the ''Mikagura-uta '' (better known, respectively, as the [[Eight Verses of Yorozuyo]] and the [[Twelve Songs]]). ''Yorozuyo '' and Songs One to Six comprise the second shift of the ''Tsutome '' while Songs Seven to Twelve comprise the third and final shift.
===Other forms of the Kagura Service===
Among the forms of the Kagura Service that were taught by Oyasama, there are eleven that happen to be prayers performed for the purpose of specific blessings that have their own distinct Song for the Kagura and hand movements. That is, they are each different from the main form of the Kagura that is performed as the Kagura at Grand/Monthly Services at Church Headquarters. The eleven different Services are:
