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  2. Sagichō Fire Festival - Wikipedia

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    Some Sagichō fire festivals that have become famous as tourist attractions are: the Dōsojin Fire Festival celebrated in Nozawaonsen, Nagano; [3] the Sagicho Fire Festival held on the seacoast in Oiso, Kanagawa; [4] etc. This festival is also celebrated at Japanese Shintoist shrines overseas, such as the Hilo Daijingu (ヒロ大神宮) in Hilo ...

  3. Festival of fire - Wikipedia

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    The Festival of fire or the Celebration with theme of fire is held in many places of the ... Sagicho Fire Festival, in many places in Japan; The Yi people's Torch ...

  4. Gozan no Okuribi - Wikipedia

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    Daimonji Hidari Daimonji without fire. 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

  5. Zoroastrian festivals - Wikipedia

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    Six irregularly-spaced seasonal festivals, called gahanbars (meaning "proper season"), are celebrated during the religious year. The six festivals are additionally associated with the six "primordial creations" of Ahura Mazda, otherwise known as the Amesha Spentas, and through them with aspects of creation (the sky, the waters, the earth, plant life, animal life, humankind).

  6. Europe's biggest fire festival lights up Shetland - AOL

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    The streets of Lerwick are once again filled with fire and smoke as Shetland holds its world famous Up Helly Aa fire festival. The event, which is traditionally held on the last Tuesday of January ...

  7. Talk:Kakizome - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  8. Japanese festivals - Wikipedia

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    Japanese festivals are traditional festive occasions often celebrated with dance and music in Japan.In Japan, festivals are called matsuri (祭り), and the origin of the word matsuri is related to the kami (神, Shinto deities); there are theories that the word matsuri is derived from matsu (待つ) meaning "to wait (for the kami to descend)", tatematsuru (献る) meaning "to make offerings ...

  9. Burning of the Character Big - Wikipedia

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    Burning of the Character Big, on Mount Myojo, in the Hakone Mountains The Character Big, on Mount Nyoi, in Kyoto. The Burning of the Character "Big" (大), also known as Daimonjiyaki (Japanese: 大文字焼き) or Daimonji Festival is the Japanese Buddhist ritual of burning wood in the character "Big" (大), typically in the mountain, on the last day of the 4-day Bon Festival to send back to ...