Onbashira Festival (27 images)
Onbashira is one of Japan's most spectacular festivals. Every six years, sixteen great fir trunks are brought to stand as sacred pillars at the four Grand Suwa Shrines, symbolically rejuvenating the Shinto deity within.
Although Japan often presents a unified face to the outside world, Onbashira is exotic even to many natives. The festival, evolved over twelve hundred years, embodies a distinctive and proud local identity. In the face of urbanization and globalization, over a century...
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Although Japan often presents a unified face to the outside world, Onbashira is exotic even to many natives. The festival, evolved over twelve hundred years, embodies a distinctive and proud local identity. In the face of urbanization and globalization, over a century...
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Onbashira Bassai - Shimosha Participants Strip...
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Onbashira Bassai - Felling the Sacred Pillar
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Onbashira Bassai Tree Felling, Shimosha
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Kamisha River Crossing, 2010 Onbashira
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Kamisha Tate-Onbashira, Onbashira 2010
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Blessing the Tate-Onbashira Pillar Team, 2010...
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Entering the Kamisha Shrine, Onbashira Festival...
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Entering the Shimosha Harumiya Shrine,...
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Kamisha Kiotoshi, Onbashira Festival 2010
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Kamisha Pillar Team, Satobiki, 2010 Onbashira...
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One of the Kamisha Pillar Teams, 2010 Onbashira
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Kamisha Yamadashi Detail, Onbashira Festival 2010
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Lone Woman in a Kamisha Pillar Team, Onbashira
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Kamisha Tate-Onbashira Team Detail, 2010
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Shimosha Pillar Team Rounding a Bend, 2010...
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Shimosha Yamadashi, Onbashira Festival 2010
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Shimosha Kiotoshi Mayhem, 2010 Onbashira Festival
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Shimosha Kiotoshi, Onbashira Festival 2010
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Kiotoshi Participant, Shimosha Onbashira 2010
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Resting, Shimosha Yamadashi, Onbashira Festival...
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Shimosha: after Kiotoshi, 2010 Onbashira
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Turning the Sacred Pillar, Shimosha Onbashira...
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Shimosha Kiotoshi - Riding the Pillar, 2010
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Shimosha Kiotoshi Hill, Onbashira Festival 2010
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Kamisha Tate-Onbashira Detail
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Kamisha Tate-Onbashira Feet Detail
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Preparing the Pillar for Tate-Onbashira,...