Tamaseseri / wooden ball catching festival   Fukuoka, January New Year’s Festival held in January, at Hakozaki Shrine A traditional form of fortune-telling, several hundred men  wearing lion cloths compete on piggy back in two teams,  the “sea” team and the “land” team team,  for possession of a wooden ball. more …   Nagasaki Lantern Festival   Nagasaki, Chanese new year 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 The festival is held from February 11 through April 3 in  Yanagawa. Hina dolls are displayed by families with girls  to pray for safe growth of their children, in Yanagawa,  in addition to Hina dolls, colourful “Sagemon” are displayed. more …    Kyokusui-no-en  Dazaifu, March 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 The name Dontaku is a corruption of the Dutch word Zontag,  meaning Sunday. The festival is said to have started as a  New Year parade of merchants going to the …

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