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  2. Shirone, Niigata - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. File:Train and Kite, Shirone Station, Niigata Kotsu Railway.jpg

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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 ...

  4. Rokkaku dako - Wikipedia

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    Rokkaku kite Rokkaku kites in Dieppe. The Rokkaku dako (六角凧) is a traditional six-sided Japanese fighter kite. Traditionally, it is made with bamboo spars and washi paper. The rokkaku kite is often hand painted with the face of a famous Samurai. The structure is a vertically stretched hexagon with a four-point bridle. One bamboo runs from ...

  5. Fighter kite - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Manja (string) - Wikipedia

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    2.2 Kite runners. 2.3 Bystanders injury. ... Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... This page was last edited on 25 January 2025, ...

  7. Category:Kite festivals - Wikipedia

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  8. List of kite festivals - Wikipedia

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    Franklin Park Kite and Bike Festival [12] (Formerly Great Boston Kite Festival) North America: United States: Northeastern: Boston, Massachusetts: Franklin Park: 1986 Summer July Second weekend of July Newport Kite Festival 30,000 North America: United States: Northeastern United States: Newport, RI: Brenton Point State Park: https://www ...

  9. International Kiteboarding Association - Wikipedia

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    The International Kiteboarding Association was founded in April 2008 by Guillaume Fournier (two-time kiteboarding world champion), after the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) had included the principle of surfers being propelled by a kite in the 'ISAF Equipment Rules of Sailing'. [3]