On May 15 the former Japan capital city of Kyoto features one of the most important Shintō festivals Aoi Matsuri or Hollyhock Festival.
History of celebration dates back to the Heian period. According to legend, tired of the constant flooding and showers the Japanese turned to the gods for help and brought leaves of Aoi Hollyhock as a gift. Rains stopped, the people returned to normal, and the flower got attributed with miraculous properties – to prevent natural disasters.
Nowadays festival in Kyoto is remarkable for its grandiose parade, which begins at the southern gate of the Imperial Palace and goes along the Kamo-gawa River. The procession is attended by about 500 people dressed in costumes of the Japanese aristocracy.
Procession is led by a rider on a richly decorated horse. Passers-by meet all participants with special obeisance. Festive event is accompanied by folk songs and dance tunes called Azuma asobi.
Every year on the 29-th of April Japan celebrates the state holiday - Day of the Sueva. It is celebrated on the birthday of Emperor Hirohito in memory of the period of his reign.
In Japan, the travel company offers visitors of a special First Airlines restaurant the opportunity to fly virtually to Paris, New York, Rome or Hawaii, without leaving Tokyo.
Let’s start with the fact that word «two» sounds as «nie», translating into Japanese. In some cases, one of which became a reason for launching of non-official Cat Day, «two» can be pronounced playfully – «nyan». We may only guess whether it is accidentally or no, however, the Japanese consider that the cat news just as «nyan-nyan-nyan». Then everything is going simply and logically. «Nyan-nyan-nyan» means «two-two-two», and «two-two-two», correspondingly, signifies twenty-second day of the second month.
Winter trout festival in Hwacheon-gun is the beautiful place to enjoy winter fishing. Every year thousands of tourists come there to eat fish and relax sledging.
Every year on the 12-th of December in Japan the citizens celebrate Kanji Day, or the Day of hieroglyphs. This day the so-called ‘kanji of the year’ is announced while the citizens of Japan are choosing the best hieroglyph in the way of voting.
The modern Japan is impossible to imagine without the period of Meidzi while it can’t be described without mentioning the emperor Meidzi (from the 3-rd of November, 1852 – the 30-th of July, 1912, the 122-nd emperor of Japan). The Culture day matches his birthday being the national holiday.
What have you heard about Japan? If you knowledge is limited only with sushi and blossoming sakura, you will be astonished that there is one of the best festivals of air navigation in the world. We have just mentioned International festival of air balloons in Saga where not only pilots go but also the tourists from all the countries.
Japanese corporation Toyota motor represented the robot Kirobo Mini who had to save Japanese from the solitude, exactly, it refers to those who more often cannot find their love partner and, thus, do not deliver children.
The citizens of Spain admire festivals where they can look at others and show their advantages. It is worth to recall at least their numerous battles with food including La Tomatina as one of the most famous ones. However, at the festival El Cascamorras nobody throws food. Instead, people out stains onto themselves with oily substance and try to stain others.
The cluster of red grapes is sold at the auction in Japan for the record amount at eleven thousand dollars. Owner of one of the supermarkets has paid approximately 360 dollars per each from 30 berries.
Ice-cream in Italy meets a ready market, especially its local kind called as gelato. Italians love and appreciate gelato so much that they would not mind dedicating the entire festival to this dessert.
Harbin city is the capital of Heilongjiang province located in Northeast China. During the long winter months, the temperature here may reach -20 degree. These days International Ice Festival is held.
On the 23-rd of December, Japan celebrates the national holiday – the Birthday of Akihito, the only ruling Emperor in the world at the moment. This year 125-th representative of the last dynasty is turning eighty.
The authorities of Japan have made a decision for the nearest three years to limit the tourist flow to Fujiyama. The web-site of newspaper «The Asahi Shimbun» reports about that.
