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This is a list of Japanese anniversaries and memorial days or kinenbi (記念日). Many dates have been selected because of a special relationship with the anniversary, but some are the product of Japanese wordplay (語呂合わせ, goroawase). These are listed by month in date order. Those excluded from the list are as follows:
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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 ]
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People react during a countdown event to celebrate the New Year in front of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 1, 2025.
The market size of the holiday, according to estimates by the Japan Anniversary Association, has shrunk from 73 billion yen ($494 million) in 2014 to 24 billion yen ($162 million) in 2021.
Masu being used to drink sake at Kagami biraki celebration as part of a modern Japanese New Year celebration. The sake version of kagami biraki by VIPs wearing happi coats. The sake version of the ceremony (based on the original practice) involves presenting a wooden barrel of iwai-zake ("celebration sake") to the celebrants at the beginning of ...