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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 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.
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.
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.
JAPAN DANCE DELIGHT is major street dance competition held annually since 1994 in Japan. Past Champions. vol. Year Champion 1: 1994: Rimokonzu(りもこんず) 2:
This dance move may sound self-explanatory, but striking the perfect balance of leg-to-arm movement ratio requires a certain rhythm which many people seem to be lacking. And by many people, we ...
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.
To the north it borders with the Ueno Zoo, to the east with Keisei Ueno Station, to the south and to the west with Shinobazu Dori. At its center lies Benten Island (弁天島, Benten-jima) on which stands the Benten-dō (弁天堂), a temple dedicated to the goddess Benzaiten. The park is divided in three parts by two promenades.