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Exploring Japan...In San Francisco Celeste Heiter - cheiter [29,099] Twelve city blocks in the heart of San Francisco are home to a thriving Japanese community. Bounded by Pine, Octavia, O'Farrell and Fillmore Streets, San Francisco's Japantown is the oldest and... Destinations: Tokyo \| Japan Topics: Culture \| Travel \| Festivals \| Performing Arts \| Shopping
Hanabi - Japanese Fireworks Diana Lee - dlee [580] "Sizz...Whew...Kaboom! Pop-pop-pop! Fuss...Fizz..." The sounds of thunderous booms, crackles and pops might have evoked natural fear, but the spectacular flashes, sparkles, and fizzles of fireworks... Destinations: Tokyo \| Japan Topics: Festivals
Kimono Robert George - rgeorge [1,340] A story told with photos. Destinations: Tokyo \| Japan Topics: People \| Festivals \| Fashion \| Traditions
The Taste of Japan Robert George - rgeorge [1,340] A story told with photos. Destinations: Tokyo \| Japan Topics: Food \| Festivals
Matsuri! Japanese Festival Arts Celeste Heiter - cheiter [29,099] Late one summer afternoon, hearing laughter rising from the busy Tokyo sidewalk below my hotel, I peered down in the direction of the voices. A cluster of animated young men, identically dressed in... Destinations: Tokyo \| Japan Topics: Festivals \| Literature \| Art
Obon Festival Hauquan Chau - hchau [445] Every summer in Japan, the spirits of dead ancestors come home. In mid-August, as the sweltering humid winds blow in, Obon Festival or "The Festival of the Dead" is celebrated throughout the... Destinations: Tokyo \| Japan Topics: Culture \| Festivals \| Traditions
Japan In Bloom Robert George - rgeorge [1,340] A story told with photos. Destinations: Tokyo \| Japan Topics: Culture \| Festivals
A Child's Life - Japan Robert George - rgeorge [1,340] A story told with photos. Destinations: Tokyo \| Japan Topics: People \| Festivals
Ceremony and Ritual in Japan Robert George - rgeorge [1,340] A story told with photos. Destinations: Tokyo \| Japan Topics: People \| Festivals \| Traditions

Exploring Japan...In San Francisco

Celeste Heiter - cheiter [29,099]

Twelve city blocks in the heart of San Francisco are home to a thriving Japanese community. Bounded by Pine, Octavia, O'Farrell and Fillmore Streets, San Francisco's Japantown is the oldest and...

Destinations: Tokyo | Japan
Topics: Culture | Travel | Festivals | Performing Arts | Shopping

Multiple blooms of kowarimono fireworks, Nagaoka City, Japan.

Hanabi - Japanese Fireworks

Diana Lee - dlee [580]

"Sizz...Whew...Kaboom! Pop-pop-pop! Fuss...Fizz..." The sounds of thunderous booms, crackles and pops might have evoked natural fear, but the spectacular flashes, sparkles, and fizzles of fireworks...

Destinations: Tokyo | Japan
Topics: Festivals

Every year on November 15, Japan celebrates Shichi-Go-San--Children's Day. Dressed in their very finest garments, girls and boys aged three, boys aged five, and girls aged seven, go with their families to nearby shrines, where they line up, sometimes for hours, to await their turn to be blessed by the presiding priest. After the blessing, the child is presented with a gift of long sticks of candy called chitose-ame, "thousand year sweets," wrapped in ornate bags decorated with cranes and turtles, both symbols of longevity.

Kimono

Robert George - rgeorge [1,340]

A story told with photos.

Destinations: Tokyo | Japan
Topics: People | Festivals | Fashion | Traditions

Perhaps the most anticipated and beloved celebration in Japan is the season known as Ohanami. The word translates as flower watching, and depending upon the weather in mid-spring, sometime during the month of April, the entire nation of Japan bursts into bloom with the ubiquitous sakura, the flowering cherry tree. The sakura create a frosty-pink canopy over city parks and country hillsides alike, and the people of Japan emerge after the long winter to rejoice in this ephemeral season. Beneath a canopy of blossoms, street vendors offer an array of traditional foods, including yakitori, skewers of savory grilled chicken.

The Taste of Japan

Robert George - rgeorge [1,340]

A story told with photos.

Destinations: Tokyo | Japan
Topics: Food | Festivals

Matsuri! Japanese Festival Arts

Celeste Heiter - cheiter [29,099]

Late one summer afternoon, hearing laughter rising from the busy Tokyo sidewalk below my hotel, I peered down in the direction of the voices. A cluster of animated young men, identically dressed in...

Destinations: Tokyo | Japan
Topics: Festivals | Literature | Art

Obon Festival

Hauquan Chau - hchau [445]

Every summer in Japan, the spirits of dead ancestors come home. In mid-August, as the sweltering humid winds blow in, Obon Festival or "The Festival of the Dead" is celebrated throughout the...