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  2. Makahiki - Wikipedia

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    The Makahiki festival was celebrated in three phases. The first phase was a time of spiritual cleansing and making hoʻokupu, offerings to the gods.The Konohiki, a class of chiefs that managed land, provided the service of tax collector, collected agricultural and aquacultural products such as pigs, taro, sweet potatoes, dry fish, kapa and mats.

  3. Waimea Cherry Blossom Heritage Festival - Wikipedia

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    The Waimea Cherry Blossom Festival is held on the first Saturday of February every year at Church Row Park, in the center of town on Hawaii State Route 19, and in Parker Ranch nearby. [ 1 ] In addition to cherry blossom viewing, there are hula , Hawaiian music , local food stalls, and other exhibits and presentations on traditional Japanese ...

  4. Japanese festivals - Wikipedia

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    Japanese festivals are traditional festive occasions often celebrated with dance and music in Japan.In Japan, festivals are called matsuri (祭り), and the origin of the word matsuri is related to the kami (神, Shinto deities); there are theories that the word matsuri is derived from matsu (待つ) meaning "to wait (for the kami to descend)", tatematsuru (献る) meaning "to make offerings ...

  5. Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii opened on May 28, 1987 in Moiliili, a majority-Japanese neighborhood in Honolulu. By 1989, the fundraising committee had raised $7.5 million from the Keidanren and other Japanese organizations to buy land and construct a new building to house the organization. Construction of the first phase of the ...

  6. Gosekku - Wikipedia

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    The origins were Japanese practices merged with Chinese practices and celebrated in Japan since the Nara period in the 8th century CE. The Japanese culture and tradition incorporated this in a unique way that spread throughout the country. The festivals were held until the beginning of the Meiji era. Some of them are still celebrated by the ...

  7. Tsukimi - Wikipedia

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    Tsukimi or Otsukimi (お月見), meaning, "moon-viewing", are Japanese festivals honoring the autumn moon, a variant of the Mid-Autumn Festival.The celebration of the full moon typically takes place on the 15th day of the eighth month of the traditional Japanese calendar, known as Jūgoya (十五夜, fifteenth night); [1] the waxing moon is celebrated on the 13th day of the ninth month, known ...

  8. Shichi-Go-San - Wikipedia

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    Shichi-Go-San ritual at a Shinto shrine A young girl dressed traditionally for Shichi-Go-San Kunisada. Shichi-Go-San is said to have originated in the Heian period amongst court nobles who would celebrate the passage of their children into middle childhood, but it is also suggested that the idea was originated from the Muromachi period due to high infant mortality.

  9. Ōmisoka - Wikipedia

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    The last day in the 12th lunar month is called ōmisoka (大晦日) —with the 大 indicating it is the final last day of the month for that year—or the "great thirtieth day". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As part of the Meiji Restoration , Japan switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1873, and ōmisoka was set as December 31, or New Year's Eve . [ 3 ]