Mifune Matsuri, Arashiyama, Kyoto by Kyoto Fan
"Held on May 19th. The day includes Heian-period historical clothing, old-fashioned boats, and traditional dances and music performed not on a stage, but on the water. In the Ōgi Nagashi ritual, an actress portraying the famous author of The Pillow Book, Sei Shonagon, and her attendants send decorative folding fans to float downstream."
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Candy apple Dipplin! 🍎
We turned this Pokemon from the land of Kitakami into a festival treat during this week's Pokemon baking livestream over on Twitch!
Kudamono ame - candied fruits - are a popular Japanese festival treat. 🎆 While we didn't make ours with the traditional millet flour starch, we did flavour our candy with cinnamon, and it was a perfect combination! Dipplin's eyes and tail are made from chocolate (and I can't count how many times the pieces broke on me 🥲) and I painted on gold luster dust for the shiny.
It's also really cool that this new Pokemon dropped right around Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year - which we celebrate with apples and honey to represent a sweet new year! 🍯
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Hakata Gion Yamakasa / 博多祇園山笠, 1871
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Unagi Sushi Taco
A unique cuisine that has to try.🍣 Unagi sushi taco contains unagi kabayaki, apple, mayo, cucumber, eel sauce, and sea same seeds. Taste little salty🌮. Unagi flavour is visible. The pieces are fragile. Breaks when chew on it. Enjoyable on the go😋. From “Hoshino Sushi Tacos”
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Ōka-sai, Hirano Shrine by Discover Kyoto
When the capital was established in Kyoto in 794, Hirano Shrine has long enjoyed prosperous relationship with the Imperial family, and the two Samurai factions, the Genji and the Heike, that served them.
A sakura festival has occurred at the shrine every single year since 985, for over a thousand years. This makes it the oldest festival in Kyoto that can claim to have continued unbroken for that long.
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