Spring Festival

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Spring Festival (haru matsuri)

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***** Season: All Spring
***** Category: Observance

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Explanation

Spring Festival, haru matsuri 春祭り



This is the most common naming for all the festivals occuring in the springtime throughout Japan.
Some are quite famous, like the Festivals of the Kashihara Shrine, the Kasuga Shrine and the Great Usa Shrine.

They also were similar to the New Year Festivals according to the Asian Lunar Calendar.

People prayed for a bountiful harvest and wellbeing of the whole family.

God of the Year (toshi toku jin)


Kashihara Spring Festival (Kashihara matsuri)

Kasuga Shrine Festivals (Kasuga matsuri)


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Worldwide use

INDIA SAIJIKI ..... (WKD - INDIA):
Spring Festivals


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Things found on the way


The Great Hachiman Shrine in Usa 　宇佐神宮
Daruma Museum


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HAIKU



spring ceremony -
he leads his Buddha
by the hand

© Photo and Haiku / Gabi Greve, 2008



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Related words

***** Festival (matsuri) Japan.Introduction

***** Autumn Festival (aki matsuri)

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