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Hana-Matsuri (Oku-Mikawa)花祭（奥三河）
An all-night winter kagura in the mountains of Aichi — a boiling cauldron, red demons, and the yubayashi water-splashing rite of being ‘born clean’ again, kept…
Festival /en/event/chubu/okumikawa-hana-matsuri/
Hakata Gion Yamakasa博多祇園山笠
Hakata's summer festival, climaxing with the oi-yama at 4:59 AM on July 15. Rooted in a 1241 rite to drive out a plague; floats once 16m…
Festival · Summer /en/event/kyushu/hakata-yamakasa/
Yame-Fukushima Toro-ningyo八女福島の燈籠人形
Lantern puppet theatre held each September at Fukushima Hachiman Shrine since 1744. A nail-free three-tier stage; karakuri brought home from Osaka in 1771. National Important Intangible…
Festival · Autumn /en/event/kyushu/yame-toro-ningyo/
Fukae River Festival深江の川祭り
At dawn on July's first Sunday, the children of Fukae build a sand altar on the beach and pray to the dragon-king of waters for safety…
Festival · Summer /en/event/kyushu/fukae-kawa-matsuri/
Every word is a door to the next.
Onta's clay leads to the river, the river to a hot spring, the spring to the table. The relations are the route.