Traditional Japanese daruma dolls seek good luck and success. These daruma, made in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, pray for peace dressed...
It’s not just the skies that are decorated for Children’s Day. Divers in Wakayama Prefecture are entertained by carp decorations gently swaying with the tide.
With the cherry blossoms in full bloom, a giant shogi board with human shogi pieces was set up on a 15-meter square on the top of...
The festival reenacts an episode from Emperor Kazan (968–1008), who wrote a waka poem on Mount Nachi praising the beauty of the cherry blossoms.
Arashiyama's beauty is well known. Now a 150 year old dying gallery is providing a new way to enjoy the seasons there through Ikebana.
Japan’s women curlers took the world by storm in the Winter Olympics, and now this Girls’ Day festival display recreates their message of the “power of...
A young performer brings new technology and vision to the ancient combination of fire and dance, and the ceremonial and performing arts of today’s Japan.
You'll be fascinated by the mystique of the brilliantly colored torii gates against surrounded by cherry blossoms laying in the mountains of Mt. Takayama.
What makes the three ehomaki unique are the squirmy conger eels that have squeezed themselves into the tubes, with their face and tails provocatively peeking out.
It’s not too late to bring in your good luck for the year with lucky charms and festivities in celebration of Setsubun.
For the first time in two years pilgrims run up the 200 stone steps at Kimiidera, Wakayama wishing for good luck in the new year.
A favorite part of the annual event is always the traditional ladder ride that conveys Japan’s culture dating from the Edo Period on how to extinguish...
