"Kagura" describes the music and dance performed for the kami; the term may have originally derived from "kami no kura" or "seat of the kami". Throughout Japanese history, dance has played an important culture role and in Shinto it is regarded as having the capacity to pacify kami. There is a mythological tale of how "kagura" dance came into existence. According to the "Kojiki" and the "Nihon Shoki", Ame-no-Uzume performed a dance to entice Amaterasu out of the cave in which she had hidden herself.