【黒仁田神楽】
  黒仁田神楽が保存継承されている黒仁田は、向山南地区に位置する、世帯数３６戸の集落である。お茶の生産を生業とする世帯が多く、集落の台地には茶園が広がり、室町時代末期に阿蘇家重臣として仕え、非業の死を遂げた黒仁田豊後守親子（くろにたぶんごのかみおやこ）を祭祀する黒仁田神社をはじめ、弁財天・薬師如来・六地蔵などの神仏が手厚く祭祀されている。
  黒仁田神楽は、日之影町岩井川系に属する神楽で、古くは諸塚村から日之影町の大人（おおひと）神楽を経由し、乙女（おとめ）・草仏（そうふつ）・尾狩（おがり）・黒仁田集落に伝えられたといわれる。その後、昭和初期に途絶えた神楽については、師匠が三田井系の神楽を習得し、取り入れている。

【Kuronita-Kagura】
Kuronita-kagura is a performance of classical ceremonial music and dance that has been preserved and inherited in Kuronita, a village of 36 households located in the Mukaiyama-Minami District, Takachiho Town. Most of the households make a living from growing tea in the tea plantations sprawling across the plateau. Kuronita Jinja, a local shrine in the village, enshrines the father and the son of Kuronita-Bungonokami who had served as a chief vassal of the Aso family and died an unnatural death in the late Muromachi period. Statues of deities and Buddha such as Benzaiten, Yakushi-Nyorai and Rokujizo are also in the village, worshiped and adored by the villagers.
Kuronita-kagura belongs to the line of Iwaigawa-kagura of Hinokage Town. In ancient times, it was passed down from Morotsuka Village through Hinokage Town to Otome, Sofutsu, Ogari and Kuronita Villages. Later on, the master of Kuronita-kagura learned and incorporated kagura of the Mitai line into the kagura pieces that went extinct in the early Showa period.