Ishikawa prefecture Kanazawa

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. Regional Festivals - From Hokkaido to Okinawa .

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Ishikawa Prefecture - 石川県

located in the Chūbu region on Honshū island.
The capital is Kanazawa 金沢市.

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Gojinjo Daiko -Japanese Drum
Wajima City


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Abare (Rampage) Festival / Noto　能登
Abare Festival is known for its wild atmosphere. On the day of the Festival, about40 tall (some are as high as 7 m) sacred lanterns are paraded through the streets along with 2 omikoshi portable shrines.




Issaki Hoto Festival
This is one of the biggest and most lively summer festivals of Noto where spirited men from the area around a fishing town called Ishizaki, parade through the town streets with rallying shouting, carrying the Hoto (votive lanterns) on their shoulders.



Maimon Food Festival


Nafune Gojinjo Drum　Festival, Wajima
It is said that the drummers wearing ghost masks and seaweed hair fought off the armies of Uesugi Kenshin who tried to attack the Nafune area in 1577.


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. Noto no kiriko　能登のキリコ 祭り　Lantern festival from Noto .

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Okuma　kabuto Festival, Nakajima, Nanao
September 20
Wearing a Tengu (long-nosed goblin) mask and dancing to the rhythm of the drums, a festival character called "Sarutahiko" leads the mikoshi portable shrine procession through the streets.


Seihakusai Dekayama (Floats) Festival, Nanao
Seihakusai is celebrated in May and is one of the biggest festivals of Noto. This Spring Festival is dedicated to Ootoko-nushi (Sanno) Shrine in Nanao.


Tomobata (Mifune) Festival, Ogi, Noto
A boat carrying omikoshi, along with 10 other boats, decorated with tomobata flags and 5 coloured fukinagashi wind-streamers rove inside the bay praying for large catch. It's a lively, gorgeous festival emphasizing the typical character of a seaside town.



Wajima Taisai Great Wajima Festival
August 23-25
10 meter tall festival lanterns called Kiriko as well as smaller portable paper lanterns are carried through the town streets along with portable shrines called "omikoshi".


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External LINKS :

Festival Guide to Ishikawa
source : ishikawajet.wikia.com


- hot-ishikawa.jp/english　-

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