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What Japanese celebrations do you like the most? - 02-26-2011, 05:40 AM

Hi, what are your favorite Japanese celebrations?

I love the "Dolls day" which is called Hinamatsuri and is held on march 3th.
I like this celebration a lot because I am a great fan of Japanese dolls.
The story about this day is really interesting:

"The custom of displaying dolls began during the Heian period. Formerly, people believed the dolls possessed the power to contain bad spirits. Hinamatsuri traces its origins to an ancient Japanese custom called hina-nagashi (雛流し?, lit. "doll floating"), in which straw hina dolls are set afloat on a boat and sent down a river to the sea, supposedly taking troubles or bad spirits with them. The Shimogamo Shrine (part of the Kamo Shrine complex in Kyoto) celebrates the Nagashibina by floating these dolls between the Takano and Kamo Rivers to pray for the safety of children. People have stopped doing this now because of fishermen catching the dolls in their nets. They now send them out to sea, and when the spectators are gone they take the boats out of the water and bring them back to the temple and burn them."

If you have any other interesting history about a Japanese celebration please share it.
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02-26-2011, 07:47 AM

I love the Christmas and new year days of daze. We can get drunk for almost 2weeks.

Whole entire Japan is like Dizz knee land then


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02-26-2011, 07:49 AM

golden week, because i dont have to go to work for a looooong time.
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02-26-2011, 07:25 PM

Hehe I was asking about Japanese Celebrations not Celebrities but that is another interesting topic also krisgale

No wonder, I was searching for the Ayumi Hamasaki Celebration and I only found info about the singer, silly me

I love J-pop mainly from the Anime series, but I don't know who the singers are.
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03-10-2011, 10:31 AM

The following Japanese celebrations i like most:
- The Japanese New Year
- Jesus WHO?
- The Hina Matsuri


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03-10-2011, 10:13 PM

I would like to celebrate the Kyoto Gion Matsuri, since it close to my birthday and where I know someone special that would be great to party with.

Otherwise, it would be any of the shrine festivals.


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03-11-2011, 12:51 AM

Fireworks displays during summer are also an interesting thing to see
I like the atmosphere of these days, walking, eating, meeting new people..!
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