Aizu Picture Candle Festival
A winter night lit by Aizu picture candles against a snowy landscape
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A winter night lit by Aizu picture candles against a snowy landscape
A traditional Gero festival entrusting prayers for a good harvest to hanagasa hats and rice-field performing arts
Rokugo’s Little New Year traditions, carried on through Tenzuku, the fire festival, and the bamboo battle
A festival to gather around four masks and discover the prayers passed down in Tani
Ta-asobi, a prayer for a good harvest that depicts a year of rice cultivation with drums and recitations
A traditional event in Kamiokutomi featuring amazake and hayashi music
A tradition of shinmei structures on the eastern and western shores, and flames lighting up the night sky
A winter contest that brings together Kariwano's skills and hopes around an enormous rope dividing the town in two
Kushiro’s winter port festival, featuring ice and snow sculptures and tube slides