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The second part of Kyoto's Jidai Matsuri - Festival of Ages - tracing back from the late 12th Century to the late 8th Century.
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Every year on October 22nd, Kyoto celebrates its long history with a historical procession of costumed participants. The parade goes backward in time from 1867 the last year Kyoto was the official capital to 794 when the city became the capital.
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Seems like a great way to beat the summer heat!
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Tae Kim has announced the September Japan Blog Matsuri. He'll be hosting the monthly event on his blog at guidetojapanese.org. The theme is the "Language of Japan", so we can expect to read some funny stories about foreigners using Japanese.
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Had a good time at the Awaodori festival in Koenji, Tokyo on Sunday. Was disappointed with how most of my pics turned out, but found a few usable ones.
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This is a short montage of a few low-rez videos shot on my old digital photo camera of some of the fringe events at Kodo's drum festival on Sado Island. It includes demon drumming style unique to the island.
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Here's a story on the famous Kodo taiko group's 3-Day drum festival held every year on Sado Island. It's three days of drums, drums, drums!
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Every August, folks flock to the huge Tanabata festival at Pearl Centre in Asagaya, Tokyo. The 700 metre shopping street that stretches from Asagaya station to Omekaido road, comes alive with a world of papier-mache creatures.
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I found this great collection of photos from a blogger who went to the Sumida River fireworks show. Apparently there were hundreds of thousands of people watching 20,000 rockets, lasting just over an hour.
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Haikugirl hit Nagoya Port on Marine Day and took some spectacular photos of the fireworks display.
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Obviously he has mental issues. Too bad even his own Embassy won't assist him....Ok. I'm shutting down. ;-(...:: jaw drops ::...And he said this is just from his Japanese-language Amazon account. (for the...The first column is page views (I would guess) so that's from 661 thousand page...There was a similar case two years ago when a police sergeant drove to work drunk,...Takes one to know one....I don't know what they're called, but you put them in your boots to make them stand...And here's that follow-up post:
