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This famous 19-block grand procession down Yanagi Street and Nakamise-dōri to Asakusa Shrine is an event that is used to energize the community. It is most known for its participants' lavish costumes, such as heron -hooded dancers, geisha and city officials wearing hakama (traditional Japanese clothing). [ 4 ]
Japanese traditional oiran dance, 2023. There are several types of traditional Japanese dance. The most basic classification is into two forms, mai and odori, which can be further classified into genres such as Noh mai or jinta mai, the latter style having its origins in the pleasure districts of Kyoto and Osaka.
Nakamise-dōri at night Nakamise-dōri under the state of emergency for coronavirus pandemic in 2020. The Nakamise-dōri (仲見世通り) is a street on the approach to the temple. It is said to have come about in the early 12th century, when neighbors of Sensō-ji were granted permission to set up shops on the approach to the temple.
The Dance of Fools (in Kōenji, Tokyo). The earliest origins of the dance style are found in the Japanese Buddhist priestly dances of Nembutsu-odori and hiji-odori [2] of the Kamakura period (1185–1333), and also in kumi-odori, a lively harvest dance that was known to last for several days.
Kōenji Awa-Odori (高円寺阿波おどり) is one of Tokyo’s largest summer street festivals with up to 12,000 dance team participants and over 1.2 million visitors over the two day event. Held on the last weekend of August in and around the neighbourhood of Kōenji , Suginami the Awa Dance Festival is the largest of its kind outside of ...
The name "Benten Kozō" (弁天小僧) actually refers to the main character of the play, a gizoku (honorable thief), one of a band of five such men. Another common name for this play is " Shiranami Gonin Otoko " ( 白浪五人男 , "Five Men of the White Waves") , " shiranami " (white waves) being a term used to refer to thieves.
Zenkoji Nakamise-dori Street, a stone-paved street extending from Niomon Gate of Zenkoji, has many local shops. Daimon-cho, old merchant houses from the Taisho era, with stone lanterns and large pavement stones; Patio Daimon, a commercial complex, that opened in 2017, that was established by renovating old warehouses and merchant houses.
Because the goddess was originally the personification of a river, Benten-dō often stand next to some source of water, a river, pond, spring, or even the sea. The goddess is routinely believed to be essentially the same as kami Ugajin within the syncretism of Buddhism and local kami worship called shinbutsu-shūgō .