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More Kawagoe Matsuri – Shishinomai and Dashi
I can’t get enough of the Kawagoe Matsuri which took place over the last weekend and easily one of the most accesible of the big “dashi” festivals here in Kanto. The big wagons are pulled around the...
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Kawagoe Matsuri – Dashi
More photos from the grand Kawagoe Matsuri that took place a couple of weeks ago in the city of Kawaoge, just north of Tokyo in Saitama prefecture. The center point of the festival are the many dashi...
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Popular Hayashi – Kawagoe Matsuri
At the famous Kawagoe Matsuri that takes place in the middle of October each year in the city of Kawagoe just north of Tokyo, you can see dozens of different hayashi music teams. These teams man the...
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Kawagoe Matsuri 2014 – Hayashi Dancers
One of my favorite things to do on any festival is to check out the local Hayashi teams, and especially the dancers in masks and costumes. Some teams are made up of locals, others are professional...
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Ometaisai Snapshots
Some more snapshots from last months grand Ometaisai in the western part of Tokyo, Ome City (青梅市). The festival takes place along and near the old Omekaido, one of the great “highways” of old Japan and...
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Ometaisai Dashi at Night
Dashi, the huge mobile festival platforms pulled around the neighborhood at matsuri time is great fun both to watch and to photograph. Here is the main dashi of the grand Ometaisai that took place last...
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Yoshiwara Gionsai – Shizuoka Prefecture
I spent yesterday in Fuji City, in Shizuoka Prefecture which is two prefectures over west from Tokyo, visiting the lovely and colorful Yoshiwara Gionsai, famous for its many dashi (mobile festival...
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Narita Gionsai – Fishing For Donations
Lots of festivals recently but I can’t really help myself from keep posting them! Summer is the great festival season of Japan and here in Tokyo you really are spoilt for choices, especially if you...
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This Weekend – Hachioji Matsuri
If you are in Tokyo over the weekend and want to see or do something special there is nothing I would recommend more than the famous Hachioji Matsuri, one of the biggest festival in Western Tokyo. It...
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Hachioji Grand Festival
I missed the grand festival in Tokyo’s western city of Hahicoji that took place last weekend. It is one of my favorite festivals so I am a little miffed that I could not go. Instead I dug around among...
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Mishima City Summer Matsuri
A few weeks ago I visited the city of Mishima in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture to the west of Tokyo just to enjoy their big summer festival. It was a three day event full of performances and culture but...
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