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Opposing teams formed by residents battle across the Nakanoguchi River using giants kites. The kites are hand made and painted by the team members for the duration of the preceding year. Each kite measures about 7 m × 3 m (23.0 ft × 9.8 ft) and typically sports a portrait of a samurai , local figure, or mascot signifying the area or team sponsor.
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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 11:48, 12 July 2007: 1,280 × 960 (226 KB) Tail furry {{Information |Description=Shirone Station, Niigata Kotsu Railway which became the abolished line on April 5, 1999. When a photograph was taken, it was just the inside for a period of Shirone Giant Kite Battle. A kite falls on a train ...
Duelling chula and pakpao kites, part of the Thai kite-fighting tradition. Fighter kites are kites used for the sport of kite fighting. Traditionally, most are small, unstable single-line flat kites where line tension alone is used for control, at least part of which is manja, typically glass-coated cotton strands, to cut down the line of others.
26: Ōzeki Hōshōryū (12–3), the nephew of the 68th yokozuna Asashōryū, stages a late comeback on the final day of the January 2025 tournament to win his second Emperor's Cup and, as a result, is set to become the sport's 74th yokozuna.
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