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Hakata Gion Yamakasa is the most famous festival of Fukuoka and it is held around Kushida Shrine and Hakata Ward as the main sites. The origin of the festival is believed to date back to 1241, when Enni, the founder of Jotenji temple had people carry him around the town on a float while praying against the plague and eventually getting successfully rid of it.
The Cuckoo (不如帰, Hototogisu), also called Nami-ko in English, is a Japanese novel first published by Kenjirō Tokutomi (under the pen name Rōka Tokutomi) in serialized form between 1898 and 1899. It was republished as a book in 1900 and became a bestseller.
Hototogisu (ホトトギス, "lesser cuckoo") is a Japanese literary magazine focusing primarily on haiku. Founded in 1897, it was responsible for the spread of modern haiku among the Japanese public [ 1 ] and is now Japan's most prestigious and long-lived haiku periodical.
The Japanese haiku magazine Hototogisu takes its name from the bird, [5] and the magazine's mastermind Masaoka Shiki's adopted pen name, Shiki also refers to the lesser cuckoo; [6] shiki corresponds to the Chinese zǐguī (子規), which is an alias for its standard name dùjuān . [7]
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 1922: Konjiki yasha: Zanmu Kako: Tsuzuya Moroguchi Yoshiko Kawada: Romance: Released 1 February. [21] Studio: Shochiku Hototogisu: Yoshinobu Ikeda
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Hototogisu may refer to: Lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus), a bird native to Japan; The Cuckoo or Hototogisu, a novel by Roka Tokutomi;
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