Early peak bloom of cherry blossoms in Tokyo
February 11, 2023, Tokyo, Japan – A bird perches on a branch of early flowering cherry tree at the Ebara shrine in Tokyo on Saturday, February 11, 2023. (Photo by […]
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Handheld fireworks launched at Shinto Shrine
(All photos by Ben Weller) Annual spring festival Gongen Matsuri was held this weekend at Matsudaira Tosho-gu, a Shinto shrine in Toyota City, Aichi prefecture. Men launched handheld fireworks known […]
Features, Traditional Japan
Sakura season in Tokyo
A selection of our favourite cherry blossom pictures from spring 2016 in Tokyo. Here cherry blossoms are illuminated at Roppongi Hills in Tokyo, Japan, March 30, 2016. (Photo by Yuriko […]
Features, Traditional Japan
Fertility Festival at Tagata Shrine in Japan
A Shinto priest performs a ceremony before a wooden phallus during Honen-sai, a fertility festival at Tagata Shrine in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. (All photos by Ben Weller/AFLO) Men carry […]
Features, Traditional Japan
Oni Matsuri
Boys are dressed in traditional Shinto clothing during Oni Matsuri, a demon festival at Akumi Kanbe Shinmeisha Shrine in Toyohashi, Japan. The festival celebrates the coming of Spring, and people […]
