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Tokushima, Japan - August 14 2024 : Tokushima Awa Odori Festival 2024 Soodori. All of performers wear traditional costumes, dance and sing as they parade through the outdoor stage at night.
People in happi coats parade with the Tobata Gion Oyamakasa Festival, a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, held in Tobata Ward, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture on July 23, 2023.
lsalvador, bahia, brazil - september 7, 2014: Brazilian Navy military personnel are seen during a military parade celebrating the independence of Brazil in the city of Salvador.
Tokyo, Japan - May, 20, 2023:  The Sanja Matsuri festival is one of the largest festival in Japan. It lasts for 3 days in honor of the three men that stablished and founded the  Sensō-ji Temple and Asakusa-Jinja shrine.
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On August 24, 2024, in downtown Tokyo's Koenji district, many spectators watch as people enjoy dancing around in the sweltering heat at the two-day Awa Odori dance festival held along the main street and shopping arcades.
Tokyo, Japan-August 25, 2024:\nKoenji Awa Dance Festival in Suginami Ward, Tokyo, which takes place annually on the last weekend of August, is one of the most popular festivals outside Tokushima City. Over 100 groups of dancers participate in the festival, which proceed dancing on the main streets around JR Koenji Station in the evening.\nAwa Dance Festival, which originated, and takes place during August 12-15, in Tokushima City of Shikoku Island, is now widely practiced in many parts of Japan. By moving arms and legs freely, men express braveness and humor and women express elegance and amorousness.\nAwa Dance Festival is one of the three most famous Bon Dance Festivals in Japan and has a history of over 400 years.
Harajuku, onden fall Festival
AOMORI, JAPAN - AUGUST 5: A lighted float is carried during a parade at the Aomori Nebuta Festival on August 5, 2022 in Aomori, Japan. Aomori Nebuta Festival is a summer festival held from August 2 to 7 in Aomori City, Aomori Prefecture. It is considered one of the three major festivals in Tohoku. It was the first time in three years that the festival was held due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan - 26/05/2018: Crowds of japanese people carrying Shinto Shrine Mikoshi on their shoulders around the neighborhood during the Matsuri.
August 2nd 2924, Morioka, Iwate. Hundreds of dancers make their way along the street for spectators during the summer \
Osaka, Japan - July 25, 2012: Golden portable shrine carried and worshipped by participants of the Tenjin Matsuri Festival, the greatest festival in Osaka boasting of a history of a thousand years.
Each year the city of Huntsville Al., has its Veteran's Parade.   This is some of that parade on 11 Nov 2015. The parade  shows our Pride and thanks for their service to our country. \
Kagawa, Japan - July 15, 2018: Japanese performers dancing in the famous Awa-odori Festival, Awa-odori is a unique style of Japanese dance event.
Tokyo, Japan-August 26, 2023:\nKoenji Awa Dance Festival in Suginami Ward, Tokyo, which takes place annually on the last weekend of August, is one of the most popular festivals outside Tokushima City. Over 100 groups of dancers participate in the festival, which proceed dancing on the main streets around JR Koenji Station in the evening.\nAwa Dance Festival, which originated, and takes place during August 12-15, in Tokushima City of Shikoku Island, is now widely practiced in many parts of Japan. By moving arms and legs freely, men express braveness and humor and women express elegance and amorousness.\nAwa Dance Festival is one of the three most famous Bon Dance Festivals in Japan and has a history of over 400 years.
Kagoshima, Japan - November 3, 2011: Brass band marching through the street at Ohara Matsuri Festival. Ohara Matsuri Festival is Kagoshima's biggest festival is held on the 2nd and 3rd of November. The 2-day festival is arranged around traditional dances performed by thousands of citizens and guests.
AKITA, JAPAN - AUGUST 6: People watch the Kanto lanterns being carried during the Akita Kanto Festival on August 6, 2022 in Akita, Japan. Akita Kanto Festival is a summer festival held from August 3 to 6 in Akita City, Akita Prefecture. It is considered one of the three major festivals in Tohoku. It was the first time after three years that the festival was held due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tokushima, Japan - August 14 2024 : Tokushima Awa Odori Festival 2024. Performers wear traditional obon costumes, dance and sing in a formation as they parade through the outdoor stage at night.
August 2nd 2924, Morioka, Iwate. Hundreds of dancers make their way along the street for spectators during the summer \
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Kyoto, Japan - October 22, 2012: People with torches at the Kurama Himatsuri in the streets of the northern suburb of Kyoto in Kurama. Every 22 of october from 6pm to midnight people carry small a huge  torches weighting more than 80 kilograms through the main street of Kurama. This is an ancient rite in which the spirits of hell are guided by the light of pine torches through the human realms. It has also a relation with the emperor that started to send torch bearers from the palace to the village in the year 794.  The older boys and men are dressed in traditional loincloths.
Tokyo - May 19 2024:people move their small size shrine in sedan chair which represent their  Chamber of commerce in Sanja Festival.  in sanja festival, every  team represent its chamber of commerce and try to take their sedan chair to Asakusa temple to pray and got the blessing from god.
Tokyo, Japan-August 5, 2023\nSprinkling of water in Ginza, Tokyo, in order to cool down the summer heat. People are asked to sprinkle water, to the tune of drum-beat, performed by professional  female drummers.   \nThis event, called Uchimizu in Japanese, takes place on the last weekend of July, or first weekend of August, annually, with many men and women turning up in yukata, traditional Japanese summer kimono.\nAfter 2 years' absence due to VOVID-19 pandemic, the event was resumed in the summer of 2022.
Kyoto, Japan - July 17, 2022: Large group of people walking on the street with the Mikoshi in late afternoon during the Gion Festival
Osaka, Japan - July 25 2023 : Tenjin Matsuri Festival. Festival boats along Okawa River.
04 August 2022, Morioka, JP. Sansa Festival. Japanese female performers dance down a city street.
The image was shot in Tukushima of Japan on the 13th of August 2018.  A group of dancers were performing \ntraditional folk dance of Awa Odori to celebrate the rich harvest of the year.
Traditional Japan festival parade.
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