Besides this, as a farm village belief with the vague boundary between Buddhism and Shintoism, the Japanese drum is also often used in ritual field music (dengaku) and in mouth spiritualism (communication with the spirit) via a Shrine maiden.
このほか仏教と神道の境界が曖昧である農村信仰として、田楽やイタコの口寄せ（交霊）にも太鼓が使われることが多い。