Tag: 祭り

• Kōnomiya Hadaka Matsuri – Naked Man Festival

  

  I’ve never been to the main event. Mainly because it’s usually takes place at around 3 am in early February with thousands of people and the occasional death. It was also postponed for a few years due to the pandemic but things got back to normal last year.

  Sean

  February 6, 2023

  Festivals, Japan

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• Festival: Shirotori

  

  The Shirotori Obon Dance was held every summer for over 400 years in central Gifu until the pandemic changed everything.

  Sean

  August 2, 2022

  Festivals, Gifu, Japan

  Bon Dance, 盆お踊り, 祭り, festival, Gifu, Japan, Matsuri, Shirotori, summer

• Cycling: Slowing Down

  

  After I’d finished I sat waiting a couple of kilometres from where the festival was about to start at a michi-no-eki and I wondered why I hadn’t just jumped in the car with everyone else.

  Sean

  August 31, 2020

  Cycling, Japan

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• Festivals: Owara Kaze no Bon / おわら風の盆

  

  I first went to the Owara Kaze no Bon festival (おわら風の盆) in September, 2008. Compared to other summer festivals in Japan it’s a fairly subdued affair, but it makes up for that in the beauty on display. Japan, so undeniably ugly at times – think of all the concreted river banks, bland convenience stores, and…

  Sean

  August 23, 2019

  Festivals, Toyama

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• Festivals: Fire Festival

  

  This is going out there as an outdoor adventure. Midnight, deep in Gifu, fire, samurai, tradition. Godo-cho, Gifu.

  Sean

  May 4, 2019

  Festivals

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• Festivals: Awa Odori

  

  There are a few reasons why I live in Japan and the Awa Odori is one of them. I can’t imagine not being able to jump in the car and head west every summer. I miss it already. There are plenty of photos of the dancers dancing everywhere so here are a few of them…

  Sean

  August 30, 2013

  Festivals, Photography, Shikoku, Travel, Travel Photography

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• Festivals: Hounen Matsuri

  

  It was nonetheless a bizarre sight to see a giant wooden penis being carried down the road I cycle along daily by sake-fuelled men and women cradling wooden penises. Equally bizarre was the sight of some of the visitors dressed up in fancy dress.

  Sean

  March 28, 2013

  Festivals, Japan, Nagoya

  祭り, 豊年, Hounen Festival, Japan, Komaki, Leica, Nagoya, Photography, Travel, 名古屋, 小牧, 日本

• Festivals: Awa Odori 2010

  

  Went to the Awa Odori Festival in Tokushima, Shikoku over the weekend. It’s easily the best festival I’ve ever been to and it never disappoints. I used to live in central Tokushima and think it’s one of the better cities in Japan to live in. Great people, easy to get around, and of course the…

  Sean

  August 16, 2010

  Festivals, Photography, Travel

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