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The Sagichō Fire Festival (Japanese: 左義長), also called Dondoyaki (Japanese: どんど焼き) or by other names, is a festival celebrated in Japan, usually on January 14 or 15. [1] During this local event, town or village residents burn their gate pine and other New Year's decorations, as well as to pray for good fortune in the new year.
Festival of Burning the Character Big, Japan; Diwali, India; Gozan no Okuribi, Kyoto, Japan; The Oroqens' Fire Festival (オロチョンの火祭り), Hokkaido, Japan; Sagicho Fire Festival, in many places in Japan; The Yi people's Torch Festival, China
At the same time here it states that the Sagicho is truly on the evening of January 14th, or morning of January 15th, and that Kakizome is indeed burned. Are the times of Sagicho matsuri arbitrary? Urokugaeshi ( talk ) 01:09, 1 January 2014 (UTC) [ reply ]
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Gozan no Okuribi (五山送り火, roughly "The Five Mountainous Send-Off Fires"), more commonly known as Daimonji (大文字, roughly "big letter"), is a festival in Kyoto, Japan. It is the culmination of the Obon festival on August 16, in which five giant bonfires are lit on mountains surrounding the city.
The festival commemorates the death anniversary of the deity Sugawara no Michizane, of these festivals, the one held in Osaka at Osaka Tenmangū Shrine is the largest. Ranking with the Gion Matsuri in Kyoto and Kanda Matsuri in Tokyo, the Tenjin Matsuri is considered to be one of the three major Shintō festivals in Japan. [ 1 ]
691 : - According to the "Nihon Shoki" (The Chronicles of Japan), its history goes back to a time when Emperor Jito invited and appointed Shugen ZOKU and Kokaku SATSU to become Professors of Ondo 691 : Empress went to Fujiwara and inspected the site for Fujiwara Palace; she was accompanied by the ministers and public functionaries.