A special scaled down “mikoshi” portable shrine for children featured for the first time in the 700-year history of the bustling Sanja Matsuri festival in Tokyo’s downtown Asakusa district. The ...

Celebrated since the early 17th century and recognised as one of the three ‘great festivals’ of Edo (along with the Kanda and Fukagawa festivals), the Sanno Matsuri is often considered to mark the ...

The huge Sanja Matsuri festival featuring three portable “mikoshi” shrines returned on May 22 for the first time in three years to crowded streets in Tokyo’s Asakusa district and with some anti-virus ...

Involving some 100 mikoshi and attracting crowds of well over a million people, the Sanja Matsuri is one of the biggest of the thousands of festivals that bring color and exhilaration to people around ...

By the way, what is this girl mikoshi is? The official name is "Tenjin Festival Feminine Mikoshi", but it is one of Osaka's poems in summer that became known as "Gyarakikoshi" as it became famous. So ...

Participants wearing the traditional "fundoshi" or loincloth carry a "mikoshi" or portable shrine during the festival of Enoshima midwinter mikoshi chastening meeting on the coast of the Sagami Bay in ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - King Kekaulike High School students were announced as the 2025 winners of the Honolulu Festival’s annual Maui Mikoshi design contest. Their winning designs were presented at ...

It is the season of Japan’s autumn festivals so expect to see mikoshi parades moving through many cities. These religious processions feature the colorful costumes and eleborate mikoshi that ...

King Kekaulike High School students were revealed on Friday as the winners of the 29th annual Honolulu Festival Maui Mikoshi design contest. Photo courtesy King Kekaulike High School King Kekaulike ...