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Kyoto, Japan - May 16 2023 : Aoi Matsuri ( Aoi Festival ). Historical parade from the Heian Period.
Kagawa, Japan - November 23 2023: Sacred bonfires during Japanese, and walking barefoot across burning coals called Gomataki. Religious bonfire.
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.
Fukoshima, Tsugaru Kaikyo, Japan, 1966. Matsuri feast. Japanese folk festival for cherry blossom and autumn festive activities for rice harvest. Connected to the Matsuri are dance, music, sake and food. The highlight is the festive procession to the Mikoshi shrines. On the recording, you can see men pulling a shrine through the streets.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - December 12th, 2019: Monks are chanting prayers for peace during annual Amitabha Buddha ceremony held in evening at an ancient temple in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Kyoto, Japan - october 22, 2023: People walking, dressed in traditional military costumes at Jidai Matsuri (japanese for Festival of the Ages) at the Imperial Palace park
Sacred purifying incense smoke hangs over the entrance, Senso-ji temple, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. Sensō-ji temple, ancient Buddhist temple in Asakusa, is Tokyo's oldest and most significant established temples. Honshu, Japan’s main island with most of the country’s major cities and cultural sites. From the busy global hub of Tokyo for finance, industry, fashion and cuisine to Mount Fuji, the iconic, snow-capped volcano and the city of Kyoto, famed for Zen temples, gardens and traditional geisha entertainment
Gion Festival
Known as the capital of pagodas and towers, coming to Soc Trang, visitors will receive surprise after surprise by the style of Khmer pagodas. One of the places to explore that tourists cannot miss is Botum Vong Sa Som Rong Pagoda. Som Rong Pagoda was built in the same architectural style as other Southern Khmer pagodas with an area of 5 hectares including: main hall, sala, house for monks, and also a book library with more than 1,500 volumes.
Kyoto, Japan - July 17, 2022: Large group of people walking on the street with the Mikoshi in late afternoon during the Gion Festival
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.
Honshu (exact location unfortunately not known), Japan, 1976. Fuke-shū beggar monks (\
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.
Takayama, Japan - October 10, 2015: Shinto priests carrying a ritual drum along the streets of Takayama old town during the annual Takayama Autumn Festival parade
1st March,2022, Quanzhou, China: XunBu women in traditional clothes and decorations praying at Matsu(Goddess Matsu of the Sea)Temple for protecting families' safety fishing on sea. Matsu is the sea goddess not only worshiped in south China, but also in Southeast Asia and Arabic countries influenced since Silk Road on sea.
Tokyo - May 19 2024: participants feel exciting and moving the Sedan chair which a small size shrine represent their chamber of commerce  in Sanja Festival. Sanja Festival is one of traditional festival, it is a weekend-long Shinto festival that is dedicated to the spirits of three men who founded a Buddhist temple
Two young and one elderly Japanese women wearing kimonos and yukatas while walking in traditional Japanese village, followed by Japanese peasants. Image taken with Nikon D800 and developed from RAW in XXXL size, in TOEI studios in Kyoto, Japan.
TTobata Gion Oyamakasa, a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, was held on July 23rd in Tobata Ward, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture. Close-up of people running with the Yamakasa on their shoulders.
June 11 2022 Takizawa, Iwate. The Chagu Chagu Umakko horse festival finally held again after a 3 year break. People honor the horses for their work in farming and transportation.
Miyajima, Japan – December 31, 2019. Participants of the Chinkasai Fire Festival at Itsukushima Shrine, near Hiroshima, carry large burning torches around the sea shore as part of a ritual to safeguard the island from fires.
Small group of Japanese actors reenacting Edo period village scene in this historical reenactment at Toei studios in Kyoto.
Osaka, Japan - July 25 2023 : Tenjin Matsuri Festival. People wearing traditional clothes walking through the streets.
bangkok thailand december 1 - 2005 - happy unknown Thai monks in chinatown bangkok at a temple
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.
Afternoon prayer in Chijon-ji Buddhist Shrine in Kyoto. Location: Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto, Japan - october 22, 2023: People walking, dressed in traditional military costumes at Jidai Matsuri (japanese for Festival of the Ages) at the Imperial Palace park
Afternoon praying at Buddhist Temple Chion-ji in Kyoto, Japan. Copy space. Nikon D800, full frame, XXXL. iStockalypse Kyoto 2016.
Yangon, Myanmar - oct 29, 2012 : Procession of the faithful during the Festival of Lights in the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon
October 13th 2021, Negeri Sembilan MALAYSIA - Chinese celebrates Nine Emperor Gods Festival in Nine Emperor Gods Temple in Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan. It is an one of the biggest annual event with nine-day Taoist celebration beginning on the eve of the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar. Taoist master is leading devotees - rocking sedan chair carrying god's statue and walking on burning charcoal ceremony, in which they must complete 9-day pure vegetarian prior to the ceremony for blessing.
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