Tobata Gion Yamagasa (戸畑祇園山笠）
Tobata Gion Oo-Yamagasa is one of the most exciting summer festivals in
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The Festival is registered on UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2016.
The festival has a lot of energy and is very dynamic as is the case with festivals such as the
Hakata Gion Yamagasa，with young men wearing the happi (festival costume) and hachimaki
(head band)， carrying the Yamagasa (festival float) and walking around the town shouting
“yoitosa yoitosa”.
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What is remarkable is the way the character of the Yamagasa changes from daytime，with the
Nobori Yamagasa (festival floats with flags); to nighttime，with the Chochin Yamagasa
( festival floats with lanterns).
The Nobori Yamagasa used during the daytime is dismantled，and the 10 metre-high Chochin
Sugawara Shrine and Nakabaru Hachimangu Shrine.
Festivals & Events in Kyushu
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New Year’s Festival held in January, at Hakozaki Shrine |
Nagasaki Lantern Festival Nagasaki, Chanese new year
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An annual festival in Nagasaki held on Chinese new year. The festival has been started to celebrate a new year by Chinese who lived in Nagasaki, and it became the Nagasaki’s festival since 1994. More than 10 thousand lanterns are decorated at China town during the festival. more … |
Yanagawa Sagemon Festival Yanagawa, February through April
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The festival is held from February 11 through April 3 in |
Kyokusui-no-en Dazaifu, March
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The festival is held at Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine on first Sunday of March, a purification ceremony on a winding stream, is performed by ladies and gentlemen in a ceremonial court robe under the plum blossoms in full-bloom. more … |
Hakata Dontaku Festival Fukuoka, May
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The name Dontaku is a corruption of the Dutch word Zontag, more … |
Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival Fukuoka, June
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The most exciting summer festival in Japa, takes place from There are two kinds of festival floats called Yamagasa.
One is Kazari-yamagasa with 15 meters high, a gorgeously decorated festival float which is decked with elaborate dolls and castles. more …
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Kokura Gion Daiko Festival Kitakyushu, June
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The festivals held in july around Kokura Castle, in which the main attraction is the playing the drums. The highlights of the Festival which you should not miss are the Taiko Performing Contest held at Kokura Castle on July 15th, and the Taiko Performing Parade held on July 16th. more … |
Tobata Gion Yamagasa Kitakyushu, June
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Float Festivals including Tobata Gion Yamagasa inscribed on UNESCO Intangible Heritage List in 2016. The festival has a lot of energy and is very dynamic as is the case with festivals such as the Hakata Gion Yamagasa，with young men |
Wasshoi Million Summer Fastival Kitakyushu, August
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Hojoya Fukuoka, September
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One of Hakata’s three main festivals, held in September at the Join the cheerful crowd in colorful yukata and experience a rare, |
Nagasaki Kunchi Nagasaki, October
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It is one of big-three festival in Japan, held on October 7 to 9 at Suwa Shrine. The festival features Chinese dance including Ja-odori, this time dancing all around the city but especially at Suwa Shrine. The whole of Nagasaki Kunchi dance was designated on Important Intangible Cultural Asset. more … |
Sumo Tournament Fukuoka, Nobember
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Chrysanthemum exhibition Throughout Kyushu, mid October to mid Nobember
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Nagasaki Kunchi
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Nagasaki Kunchi is one of big-three festival in Japan, held on October 7 to 9 at Suwa Shrine. The festival features Chinese dance including Ja-odori (Snake dance), this time dancing all around the city but especially at Suwa Shrine. |
History
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After Christianity was harshly suppressed in Nagasaki in 1624, a festival was dedicated to Suwa Shrine, the guardian god of local people. |
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At the outset, dedicated dance were very simple but gradually became colorful. |
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The Ja-odori or snake dance was first performed in the Nagasaki Kunchi during period 1789-1800. |
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In 1970, the government designated the whole of Nagasaki Kunchi dance including Ja-odori as an Important Intangible Cultural Asset. |
Kyokusui-no-en
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Vermilion-lacquered cups full of sake are set afloat down the stream.
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a Japanese poem called waka, and write it down on a strip of fancy paper.
When the cups reach the participants, they drink the sakeand hand the paper strip and cup over
to an attendant.
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The ceremony has its origin in a historical fact that Ono-no-Yoshifuru, an elder brother of a
noted-calligrapher Ono-no-Tofu, held a ceremony to appease the soul of Michizane Sugawara and
to beguile tedious hours in a rural life.
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Nagasaki Lantern Festival
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Nagasaki Lantern Festival is the annual event in Nagasaki held on Chinese new year. The festival has been started to celebrate a new year by Chinese who lived in Nagasaki, and it became the Nagasaki’s festival since 1994. |
Chrysanthemum exhibitions
of the Imperial Family and a symbol of longevity and rejuvenation.
to mid November in many shrines, temples and gardens throughout Japan.
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