The English form of folk dancing known as morris dates back to the Middle Ages and involves costumed groups of dancers stepping in time to music. Participants typically wear bells attached to their shins and may also wield handkerchiefs or sticks. Barely seen in Japan before, this traditional art can now be experienced in the most unexpected of locations: Shikoku.

Thanks to the efforts of English teacher Angela Fukutome, a small but enthusiastic Japanese morris dancing group is performing at festivals and cultural events around Kagawa Prefecture. Drawing on the old name for the Kagawa region, the group — known in morris as a "side" — calls itself Sanuki Morris.

Although Fukutome, a Briton, had no prior experience of morris, she studied various kinds of dancing throughout her childhood and teens, and trod the boards in musicals during her university years.