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	Japanese festivals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many Japanese festivals come from Chinese festivals but most had undergone dramatic changes as they mixed with local customs.
		Tobata Gion) that are mostly unknown outside a given prefecture.
		Unlike Chinese, Japanese people generally do not celebrate Chinese New Year (it having been supplanted by the Western New Year's Day in the late 1800s), while Chinese residents in Japan do.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_festivals (192 words)

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		This festival, held in celebration of the god of horses, is unique to horse-breeding districts as a prayer for the safety of horses and prosperity of their owners.
		This festival is one of local Gion Matsuri, which originally started in Kyoto, and is famous for its Oiyama race on 15th, in which teams dash with their Kakiyama(one of the two types of festival floats) along a 5km.
		This festival is observed to avert pestilence as is the Gion Festival in Kyoto.
	www.shop-japan.co.jp /matsuri/yoteimaturi-e4.htm (5572 words)

	Kami no Michi Appendix B
		The festival is linked closely to the rites of passage in society and deals with the problems people faced at particularly difficult periods of their lives.
		The summer festival is celebrated at the time when the crops are in the greatest danger of being destroyed by insects and by blights.
		The Autumn Festival is the sequel to the Spring Festival.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/8871/festivals.htm (1569 words)

	Japanese Holidays
		Japanese young people become full-fledged adults at the age of 20, when they can vote, as well as choose to smoke and/or drink; in addition they assume the responsibilities of adulthood.
		A girl's first Girl's Festival is called her "hatzu-zekku"; it is popular for the girl's grandparents to present her with her first set of "hina"-dolls, which is an elaborate (and expensive) set of up to 7 tiers, with up to 15 dolls, and small furniture & lamps.
		Translates as 7-5-3; this festival, celebrated on November 15th is a time when boys (aged 3 and 5) and girls (ages 3 and 7) are taken by their parents to a local shrine to give thanks for their health and growth so far, and to pray for their future.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Towers/2060/culture2.html (2468 words)

	Japanese Culture - Entertainment - Festivals
		The festival is a major tourist attraction that brings millions of visitors from across Japan and abroad.
		Honours the deities of the Hie Shrine in Tokyo.
		The festival dates back to the 13th century when a priest was carried through the city spraying holy water along the way to rid the city of an epidemic.
	www.japan-zone.com /culture/festival.shtml (769 words)

	Japanese culture
		The Japanese use Chinese letters in their alphabet, since they discovered that it was a more convenient way to express their traditional words, as well as European ones.
		The festival of winter solstice; red bean porridge is the special dish of this day and it also has the power of driving away evil spirits.
		Beltane is one of a fire festival comparable to Halloween held on 1st of May. The heroine of this festival is May Queen and have some similarity with May festivals such as Walpurgisnacht in Germany.
	www.watanabesato.co.jp /jpculture/jpculture.html (1145 words)

	Japanese Festivals
		During this festival people set up lanterns to guide the souls of the dead to and from their homes, make offerings of food to the deceased, and enjoy a special kind of dancing called bon odori.
		The festival is said to have its origins in a ritual that was supposed to drive away drowsiness, since the word nebuta is thought to derive from the Japanese word for sleepiness.
		November 15th is the harvest festival, and families visit the god praying for their children's growth and at the same time this occasion for the child to be recognized by the public and the gods as a member of the society.
	www.sfusd.k12.ca.us /schwww/sch618/japan/Festivals/Japanese_Festivals.html (2466 words)

	Japanese festivals
		There are countless local festivals in Japan because almost every shrine has its own one.
		Most festivals are held on an annual basis and celebrate events like the coming of the farming season, the harvest, or they commemorate historical events.
		It is one of the three big festivals of Tokyo.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2063.html (239 words)

	Japanese Festivals and Japanese Culture
		Festivals and cultural events are deeply rooted and observed in Japan.
		The Japanese are well known for their hand crafted ceramic dishes to stunning lacquer bowls, plates, bento box and trays.
		Japanese dishes are well beloved for their high quality and intricate craftsmanship.
	www.explorejapan.com /jculture.htm (227 words)

	Japanese Festivals and Celebrations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Millions still do though, since Japanese are given extremely few chances to go abroad in the year, the Japanese festivals are quiet and dull, and escaping the bitter cold of the season is a nice idea.
		The festival evolved into the form we can see today during the Edo Period (1603-1867), and it is still possible for people to buy Hina Matsuri dolls created during that time as well as the late 19th and early 20th centuries in antique shops during the season.
		Japanese department stores have decked-out trees as colourful as anything in the west, and many streets have colourful displays and wreathes all lined up for blocks.
	www.thejapanfaq.com /celebrations.html (2031 words)

	Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Main article: Demographics of Japan Japanese society is ethnically and linguistically homogeneous, with small populations of primarily North and South Koreans (1 million), Okinawan (1.5 million), Chinese and Taiwanese (0.5 million), Filipinos (0.5 million), and Brazilians — mostly of Japanese descent — (250,000), as well as the indigenous Ainu minority in Hokkaido.
		Japanese citizenship is conferred on an infant when a family member registers the infant's birth in the family registry held by a neighborhood ward office.
		The Japanese population is rapidly aging, the effect of a post-war baby boom followed by a decrease in births as the country modernised in the latter part of the 20th century (notable aspects including the shift from agricultural to urban lifestyles and the increasing tendency for women to remain in the workplace).
	japan.ask.dyndns.dk (4339 words)

	Matsuri! Japanese Festival Arts -- ThingsAsian Article
		Japanese Festival Arts is an opulent and scholarly work by Gloria Granz Gonick, who earned her master's degree from UCLA's Department of Art History, specializing in Japanese design, language and culture.
		Japanese Festival Arts featured more than 250 richly decorated festival garments, artifacts and other works of art, including sculptures, screens, shrine adornments, prints, and banners used in the joyously chaotic Shinto and Buddhist festivals known as matsuri.
		Japanese Festival Arts is on textiles, it soon becomes apparent that the significance of these traditional Japanese garments, and the festivals in which they are worn, extends far beyond the ephemeral matsuri.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.2230.html (1124 words)

	JAPANESE CULTURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Understand the culture of Japanese music from the traditional Japanese music to the modern Japanese music styles.
		Traditional Japanese weddings based on the Shinto religion are major occasion with wearing of the Japanese kimono including the wedding kimono.
		Shichi-go-san is a festival celebrated by parents on the fifteenth of November in Japan, to mark the growth of their children as they turn three, five and seven years of age.
	www.japaneselifestyle.com.au /culture/culture.html (384 words)

	Japanese festivals: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A festival or fest is an event, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community....
		In ancient times, the japanese new year (shgatsu) followed the same lunisolar calendar as the chinese or korean/vietnamese new year (at...
		Japanese calendar[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject]
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/japanese_festivals.htm (877 words)

	Festivals & Holidays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While New Year's Day is a holiday in many parts of the world, the occastion has a unique significance to the Japanese, who take the opportunity to begin anew many aspects of their lives.
		A well-known Japanese proverbs says: "New Year's is the key to unlock the year".
		This belief respecting the beginning of the year, and the association with the birth of the Nation, are factors that made Hatsumairi popular and significant in the country.
	mothra.rerf.or.jp /ENG/Hiroshima/Festivals/27.html (2058 words)

	Folk Festivals as a Gateway to Japanese Culture
		Japanese rituals were, on the contrary, very worldly, sometimes being ecstatic practices in which the deity was by no means seen as an absolute and spiritual being enthroned in a far-off heaven.
		The cultic festival as the central feature of Shinto enables us to grasp the religion of the Japanese both in its individuality and in its continuity, fostered as it is by the interaction of history and tradition.
		The essential achievement of Japanese ethnography is that it has revealed in Japanese culture a substratum which is traditional through and through, being based on behavioural patterns passed down for many centuries, and which in conjunction with a genuine material culture fully satisfies all local requirements.
	www.home.worldcom.ch /~negenter/474bGatewayJpF_E.html (3074 words)

	Japanese Culture - Festivals - Holidays, Annual Events
		Although the word matsuri is always translated as 'festival', some festivals and holidays are more correctly included in the nenchu gyoji or annual events originally observed by the Imperial court.
		The focal point for the Hina Matsuri or Doll Festival is a display of dolls representing the emperor, empress and their court in formal dress.
		7-5-3 Festival (Shichi-go-san) on November 15th, 7 and 3-year old girls and 5-year old boys (Shichi-go-san is Japanese for the numbers 7,5 and 3) are dressed up in their best kimono - although these days suits are more common for the boys - and brought to the shrine to pray for their future.
	www.japan-zone.com /culture/holiday.shtml (953 words)

	Festivals Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This festival is brave festival held every 6 years, Tiger and monkey's year according to Chinese zoo calendar.
		Sanja festival is the representative festival of downtown Tokyo.
		The origin of this festival was to drive away evil spirits of disease.
	plaza.harmonix.ne.jp /~haga/n_fest-E.html (493 words)

	Festivals & Holidays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They are displayed for a few days in the best room of the house at this festival time, after which they are carefully boxed and put away until the next year.
		The blossoms signify the feminine traits - of gentility, composure and tranquility.
		Families observe it to encourage filial piety, ancestor worship, loyalty, but above all is the love of children by Japanese parents, their joy and pride in them, and their desire to please them, and this love often impels noor parents to sell some of their belongings to buy dolls and decorations for the festival.
	mothra.rerf.or.jp /ENG/Hiroshima/Festivals/36.html (638 words)

	Old Japan. We have Japanese Antiques, Silk Kimonos, Tansu Chests, Yukata, Lucky Cats, Japanese Masks and much more.
		Japanese Masks have become popularized through their use in Noh and other theater and dance.
		When Japanese women marry they traditionally wear a huge white headdress which is said "to hide the Horns of Jealousy".
		While the Okame mask is a representation of a typically lovely, always cheerful Japanese woman, the Hannya represents her darker side.
	www.oldjapaninc.com /japanese_masks.html (807 words)

	Japanese Spring Festivals and Special Friends
		Hanawa is not as restrained in her laughter as are most Japanese women.
		And we knew from past experience with exchange students, and from our knowledge of Japanese culture, that she would be unlikely to complain if she were unhappy.
		Sayaka's family home overlooks the main gate of the temple and is the size of a respectable ryokan (a traditional Japanese inn), and in fact serves as a ryokan of sorts for the Nichiren faithful who make pilgrimages to the temple.
	www.biz2web.com /grant/c17.htm (3833 words)

	Market Wire: Japanese Celebrations Create Festive Fun For Kids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kids are the focus of many great Japanese celebrations, some of which have been around for hundreds of years.
		Japanese festivals and celebrations represent a national commitment to preserving ancient traditions.
		Parades, costumes, games and other festivities make for very lively celebrations in which the young people come to know and appreciate just how important they are in their culture.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200106/ai_mark06027753 (377 words)

	Matsuri, Japanese Festivals
		Matsuri are native Japanese festivals of sacred Shinto origin.
		Through feast and celebration, matsuri symbolize the community's unity with itself and with its Shinto gods ("kami.") Sometimes large and boisterous, sometimes small and solemn, sometimes adhering strongly to tradition, sometimes watered down by modern commercialism, matsuri are rooted in the lives of the Japanese.
		Note: Matsuri relates to the craft, Yukata, Japanese summer cotton and silk kimonos, worn during Japanese summer festivals.
	www.thejapaneseconnection.com /Glossary/festival.htm (88 words)

	Holidays & Festivals > Children's Festivals in Japan
		On the third step there are five musicians holding Japanese traditional instruments and on the 4th step there are four men and beside them there are two cherry blossoms.
		This festival is celebrated on 11th of November.
		The parents only celebrate this festival for children who are 3,, 5, or 7 years old because it is believed that these are the when the children's bodies are growing the best.
	www.internet-at-work.com /hos_mcgrane/holidays/2_yuko.html (805 words)

	Japanese Folk Festivals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The recent work of Japanese ethnographers, as yet hardly recognized in the West, has done a great deal to facilitate this understanding.
		Festivals are a very important element of these cultures and are striking both in their frequency and in their variety.
		The festivals of Japan are consequently a receptacle of its cultural past.
	home.worldcom.ch /~negenter/474aTxIntro_E.html (295 words)

	The Japanese Way (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I address this requirement with a two-week introduction to Japanese culture, customs, behaviors, attitudes, and the Japanese education system, followed by integration of Japanese culture throughout the school-year by studying the Japanese calendar of holiday and festival celebrations.
		Miniature figures of legendary Japanese warriors are displayed on tiered stands at home, along with their armor and swords.
		Japanese people express wishes for prosperity of Japan as a country surrounded by the sea.
	www.smith.edu /fcceas/curriculum/schwarz.htm (2376 words)

	Japanese Holidays
		According to the earliest Japanese history books, on this day in the year 660 BC the first Japanese emperor was crowned.
		Obon is a festival to commemorate the deceased ancestors.
		A festival for children, it is not a national holiday.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2062.html (450 words)

	Culture Capsules: ESL Student Writing Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Also there are festivals that are something special; fire festivals in which fire has a great role, and festivals where dancing is the main attraction.
		This festival has a 400 year history and is still enthusiastically celebrated because of a dancing competition between the teams which is well accepted by the numerous visitors from all over Japan.
		This festival is held in the beginning of August in Aomori, northernmost prefecture in the Japanese mainland.
	www.lclark.edu /~krauss/naweb/na.html (2003 words)

	JapanCorner - The Benihana Guide to Japan
		The Cherry Blossom Festival is a celebration of Spring coinciding with the blossoming of cherry trees which are popular throughout Japan.
		Because of the climactic differences between north and south, the actual dates are determined locally but generally occur during April and May often times simultaneously with Golden Week.
		Autumnal Festivals such as the Moon Viewing Festival are a celebration of the harvest and the changing of the seasons.
	www.japancorner.com /holiday-calendar.asp (208 words)

	Japanese Festivals and Holidays: An Honors Option for HST 210 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Japanese Festivals and Holidays: An Honors Option for HST 210
		This is an Honors Option for HST 210 taken in Spring 2006 with Professor Whittaker.
		In addition to this, it is no surprise then that the change from the traditional lunar calendar to the modern western calendar in 1873 disrupted many of these holidays and festivals.
	www.msu.edu /~walquis2 (154 words)

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