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Large boat festival with a large fleet of wooden Japanese ships centered around boats carrying mikoshi and including rowing boats, lion boats, pleasure boats and boats for music and song. Ōsake Shrine, Sakoshi, Akō, Hyōgo: Boats of the Kōchi Festival (河内祭の御舟行事, kōchi matsuri no mifune gyōji) [145] Fourth weekend in July
Washi (和紙) is traditional Japanese paper processed by hand using fibers from the inner bark of the gampi tree, the mitsumata shrub, or the paper mulberry (kōzo) bush. Yama, Hoko, Yatai, float festivals in Japan 2016 01059: Thirty-three float festivals around Japan held annually to pray to the gods for peace and protection from natural ...
Representative example of a boarding house for young men from Hata District, that developed at the end of the Edo and early Meiji periods. 2×2 ken, single-storied, raised-floor-style (takayukashiki) with hip-and-gable roof (irimoya-zukuri) [ex 1] and sangawarabuki tiles. [ex 3] Four corner pillars are made of Japanese chestnut trunks.
Folk Cultural Properties are items indispensable to understand the role and influence of tradition in the daily life of the Japanese, such as manners and customs related to food, clothing, work, religion; folk performing arts; and folk techniques used to produce the mentioned Folk Cultural Properties. [1]
Japanese folklore encompasses the informally learned folk traditions of Japan and the Japanese people as expressed in its oral traditions, customs, and material culture. In Japanese, the term minkan denshō (民間伝承, "transmissions among the folk") is used to describe folklore. The academic study of folklore is known as minzokugaku ...
Mansi folklore also includes mythical and heroic stories and fate songs, which are biographical poems. [13] An example of the traditional material culture of Ob-Ugric peoples is ornamenting leather clothing and birch bark objects with mosaics. [13]
Sankei-en's Rinshunkaku in Yokohama is a nationally designated Important Cultural Property of Japan. An Important Cultural Property (重要文化財, jūyō bunkazai) [note 1] is an item officially classified as Tangible Cultural Property by the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) and judged to be of particular ...
Japanese popular culture not only reflects the attitudes and concerns of the present day but also provides a link to the past. Popular films, television programs, manga , music, anime and video games all developed from older artistic and literary traditions, and many of their themes and styles of presentation can be traced to traditional art forms.