That night inspired Yanagita to become a professional Bon odori researcher. Clad in the de rigueur summer festival attire of "yukata" cotton summer kimono with a "tenugui" hand towel to wipe the ...

“It was exhilarating.” If there are people who don’t know the Bon odori routines for a specific festival, others around them can show them how to do them. “The charm of Bon odori is that ...

For more than 700 years, the residents of Nishimonai in Akita Prefecture have welcomed their ancestral spirits home for the annual Obon festival through a Bon Odori.These dances are held across ...

On the nights of the 14th, 15th, and 16th of August, the obon festival takes over the streets of the Niino community of Nagano Prefecture. At its conclusion, a practitioner of shugendo ...

Bainbridge Island Mochi Tsuki Festival attracted thousands of people Jan. 11, bringing out the confectioner, dancer, musician and historian in all who attended.

The Gujo Odori, one of Japan's largest Bon dances, is a spectacle with the scores of revelers, as well as the live festival music and clacking geta wooden clogs. For more than 400 years ...

One of the students resides in Byron Bay, NSW. Mr Cowland-Cooper said that there might be some people who dance Awa Odori at the annual Bon-Odori dance festival in Byron Bay this weekend.