Tag: festival
Shinjuku Mikoshi Festival
Shinjuku Mikoshi Festival. _
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Hamamatsu Kite Festival
Giant kite at the Hamamatsu Kite Festival in Shizuoka Prefecture. The festival features giant...
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Nebuta Festival Float
This huge float is from the Nebuta festival in Aomori prefecture in northern Japan. Held in the...
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Taking Aim
The Yasukuni Shrine is famous for its nationalistic war museum, war criminals enshrined as gods,...
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Mikoshi Madness
Tokyo’s Sanja Matsuri was held this weekend, but it had a relatively subdued atmosphere this...
Read MoreTransvestites at the Kanamara Penis Festival
Transvestites carrying a giant penis through the streets of Kanagawa City. Video of the festival: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SggvPrkoJUI Shrine homepage: http://tomuraya.co.jp/wakamiya.htm (Japanese only) 2-3-16 Daishi...
Read MoreKyudo demonstration at the Meiji Shrine
The Culture Day (Nov. 3) Festival at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo is something I look forward to every year. I’ve been four times, and still get excited about going because it’s so great for photography. I tried out the...
Read MorePortable Shrine in the Nakamise Shopping Arcade
A mikoshi (portable shrine) being carried down Asakusa’s Nakamise shopping arcade in front of Senso-ji Temple during the Sanja Matsuri Festival. Here are some other posts about the Sanja...
Read MoreHorseback Archery
This horseback archery event took place in Takadanobaba on Sports Day, October 9. In yabusame demonstrations, the participants gallop a horse at full speed down a track, and try to hit three small targets that are only a hundred...
Read MoreJapanese Superhero Masks
Visit any Japanese festival, and there will probably be at least one booth selling these superhero masks.
Read MoreSamurai Reenactors
Every year on November third, thousands of martial artists gather on the grounds of the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo to give demonstrations of their techniques. There’s karate, aikido, kyudo, and jujutsu, but also some very...
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Mikoshi Men
This was taken at the Sanja Matsuri, one of Tokyo’s biggest festivals, back in July. The...
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