Posts Tagged ‘祭’
This year, for the first time in several years, I wasn’t able to attend the Kishiwada Danjiri festival, one of my very favorite Japanese festivals. There are several festivals in the Kansai area that involve the parading of danjiri — essentially giant, elaborately carved portable shrines on wheels — through city streets, but the Kishiwada Danjiri festival […]
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