Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ikebukuro, Japan, Tokyo, matsuri, festival, dance, 2009, Fukuro, Yosakoi on October 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Fukuro Matsuri (festival)was held on the shopping streets near the west exit of JR Ikebukuro Station, Tokyo on October 10-11, 2009.
This is Ikebukuro’s biggest festival and attracts more than 200,000 people from all over the world.
This festival was started in 1968, sponsored by the Ikebukuro Trade Association with the main aim [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Japan, Tokyo, festival, carnival, dance, music, temple, Asakusa, floats, Brazil, samba, costumes on September 1, 2009 | 7 Comments »
As one of the three largest and most popular summer festivals in Tokyo (together with Sumida River Fireworks Festival and Koenji Awa Odori), the annual Asakusa Samba Carnival was held on Saturday, August 29, 2009.
This Brazilian dance parade was held along the streets near the Sensoji Temple and the Asakusa subway station. A beautiful and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Awa Odori, dance, festival, Japan, matsuri, streets, Tokyo, Yamato on August 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Yamato Awa Odori dance festival in Kanagawa was held on July 25-26, 2009.
Several streets in the area were blocked off from traffic.
Awa Odori’s popularity has spread through Japan and is now a standard feature of summer festivals throughout the country.
There was also an Awa Odori parade In my [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dance, Darth Vader, Disney, MC Hammer, Star Wars, Storm Troopers on July 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Darth Vader and 4 Storm Troopers dance to MC Hammer’s “You Can’t Touch This” at Disney World during Star Wars Weekends 2009. Awesome!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bamboo, bands, baton, dance, festival, hiphop, Hiratsuka, Japan, ornaments, poles, Shonan, star, Tanabata, Tokyo on July 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This time of the year, you will see decorated bamboo poles throughout Japan. These decorated bamboo are called Tanabata Kazari, representing the Japanese star festival called Tanabata (“Evening of the seventh”) celebrated on July 7th. Even Google Japan updated their image on their search page.
The day celebrates the legend of the couple, Orihime (represented [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aoyama, dance, festival, geta, Guoi, Japan, Odori, Tokyo, yukata on July 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Gujo Odori dance festival is one of the three most important traditional dance festivals in Japan and is designated a Significant Intangible Cultural Folk Asset by the Japanese government. The Aoyama Gujo Odori festival was held at the Baisoin Temple in Minami-Aoyama on June 27-28, 2009.
Endo Yoshitaka started the Gujo Odori festival in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bali, beach, cliffs, dance, fire, fish, Indonesia, monkey, motorcycle, sunset, temple on July 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
… continued from Part 1.
Although we stayed in our resort hotel for most of the time, we did manage to do a little bit of sightseeing during our visit to Bali.
We hired a driver from the hotel (costing about US$13/hour) to take us to a few places near Nusa Dua. There were lots [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Asakusa, crane, dance, heron, Japan, Sensoji, Shirasagi, temple, Tokyo, white on April 16, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Shirasagi no Mai (White Heron Dance) festival, founded by Asakusa Tourist Federation in November 1968 in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Meiji period, was held in Sensoji Temple in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan on April 12, 2009.
The white heron (shirasagi) dance is one thousand years old. It is a religious rite to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anniversary, dance, illumination, Japan, Meiji, parade, shrine, Tokyo on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This year is the 50th anniversary of Meiji Jingu’s reconstruction, after it burnt down during the war in 1945.
In the difficult times after the war, many people contributed donations for the reconstruction of Meiji Jingu, and in the night of October 31, 1958, the divine spirits were transferred to the new shrine buildings.
Usually [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, dance, Japan, Kabuki, Nihon Buyo, theater, Tokyo on September 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We recently attended a Nihon Buyo performance at the National Theatre of Japan in Hayabusa, Tokyo, conveniently located by subway access, 5 minutes walk from the Hanzomon subway station.
Opened in 1966, the National Theatre of Japan consists of 2 theaters, with the large one with seating of 1,610 and the small theater with 590 [...]
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