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From February 14th til 28th the famous Lantern Festival in Nagasaki is happening. Got to say, it’s absolutely stunning!

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The “Seijinshiki”, or “Coming of Age Ceremony” in Nagasaki. Whoever turned 20 in the previous year is invited and everyone shows up in their most beautiful (and usually very very expensive) furisode (kimono).

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A video this time. Once again the Kunchi festival in Nagasaki.
Unfortunately Youtube ruined the quality of the video, and someone was blocking half of my view most of the time, sorry about that!

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The Kunchi festival in Nagasaki.

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]]> http://www.aikagi.net/blog/archives/254/feed 0 004 : Japan day in Leiden http://www.aikagi.net/blog/archives/105 http://www.aikagi.net/blog/archives/105#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 18:04:28 +0000 Carola http://www.aikagi.net/blog/?p=105 Today was the Japan day in Leiden, as a celebration of 400 years trade relations between the Netherlands and Japan.


Butoh procession

More photo’s here.

In the afternoon, together with a Buddhist monk from near Hiroshima and a monk from Leiden, Japanese opera singer Aika performed a houyou (Buddhist memorial service) in honour of Von Siebold.

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