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| | The Japan Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Chichibu Yomatsuri Night Festival, one of Japan's three biggest festivals featuring festival floats, will run Dec. 1-6 in the city of Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture. |
 | | It is believed Myoken Bosatsu, the goddess of Chichibu Shrine, and the dragon god of Mount Buko meet once a year at a site called Otabijo -- literally, "a place of pilgrimage" -- symbolizing Horai, where the fruit of immortality is said to grow, on Dec. 3. |
 | | Chichibu is accessible from Ikebukuro, Tokyo, via the Seibu Ikebukuro Line, get off at Seibu Chichibu Station. |
| www.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20041126a1.htm (285 words) |
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