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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 ...
The September Festival involves 34 Danjiri. In October the towns between the Nankai line and the mountains hold their own Danjiri Festivals. These involve 47 Danjiri and centre on the JR stations of Kumeda, Shimomatsu and Higashi-Kishiwada. The city has 81 large wooden carts, each holding a portable shrine or danjiri.
Kaze-no-Bon (風の盆) is a Japanese festival held every year from September 1 to 3 in Yatsuo, Toyama, Japan. Kaze-no-Bon literally translates to "Bon Dance of the Wind." This festival, having a history of about 300 years, recently became [when?] a popular tourist attraction to the otherwise sparsely populated mountain area. The original ...
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 ...
The Great Festival of Fujisaki Hachimangu Shrine is a festival of Fujisaki-hachimangu at Chūō-ku, Kumamoto every September, characterized by a parade of Shinto priests, followed by groups of followers who chase their horses shouting, "Boshita, Boshita", in earlier times; but now the parade followers, "Dookai Dookai", or other phrases.
The 400-year-old fireworks festival is held in early September, including 1.2 meter firework shells which produce 800 meter wide explosions, recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest fireworks in the world. During the festival, a mortar partially buried in the ground launches a 420 kg shell into the air, known as the ...
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Hōnen Matsuri (豊年祭, Harvest Festival) is a fertility festival celebrated every year on March 15 at Tagata Shrine in Komaki, just north of Nagoya. Hōnen means "prosperous year" in Japanese, implying a rich harvest, while a matsuri is a festival. The Hōnen festival and ceremony celebrate the blessings of a bountiful harvest and all ...
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