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Oto matsuri fire festival 2020

Oto matsuri fire festival 2020

Oto-matsuri festival at Kamikura-shrine in Shingu City, Wakayama Prefecture. Click on any image below to see the full gallery. Contact us for licensing. Festival-goers holding torches gather during the Oto-matsuri festival […]

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Japanese Festival: Setsubun at Sensoji Temple Asakusa

Japanese Festival: Setsubun at Sensoji Temple Asakusa

On February 3 a special Setsubun celebration was held at Sensoji Temple in Asakusa, Tokyo. Click on any image below to see the full gallery. Contact us for licensing. Setsubun or […]

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Japan New Year’s tuna auction sold for 193 million yen

Japan New Year’s tuna auction sold for 193 million yen

January 5, 2020, Tokyo, Japan – Kiyoshi Kimura, president of sushi restaurant chain Sushi-zanmai displays a 276kg bluefin tuna at his main restaurant in Tokyo on Sunday, January 5, 2020. […]

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Japan fights the annual Summer heat

Japan fights the annual Summer heat

August 3, 2019, Tokyo, Japan – People dressed in yukata, summer kimono dress splash recycle water onto a ground a long a street at Ginza district in Tokyo for Uchimizu […]

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Konomiya Hadaka Matsuri

Konomiya Hadaka Matsuri

FEBRUARY 17, 2019 – Men in loincloths gather at a shrine during the Konomiya Hadaka Matsuri, or Naked Festival, in Inazawa City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The festival, which dates to […]