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Burning Of The Character Big
The Burning of the Character "Big" (大), also known as Daimonjiyaki () or Daimonji Festival is the Japanese Buddhism, 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 the other world the spirits of the family ancestors that they welcomed on the first day. There are many locations in Japan where this ritual is held. In western Japan, the Gozan Okuribi, Okuribi of the Five Mountains, celebrated in Kyoto, Kyoto, Kyoto, is the most famous, while in eastern Japan, the ritual during the Gōra Station, Hakone Gora Summer Festival with the fire burned on Mount Myōjō in the Mount Hakone, Hakone Mountains is relatively well known because of its proximity to Tokyo. See also *Bon Festival *Gozan no Okuribi, Farewell Fires of the Five Mountains in Kyoto, Kyoto, Kyoto *Sagichō Fire Festival References {{Reflist External linkOkuribi (Ceremonial Bonfire to Send out Spirits of the Dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Hakone
, with its highest peak Mount Kami (1,438 meters), is a complex volcano in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan that is truncated by two overlapping calderas, the largest of which is 10 × 11 km wide. The calderas were formed as a result of two major explosive eruptions about 180,000 and 49,000–60,000 years ago. Lake Ashi () lies between the southwestern caldera wall and a half dozen post-caldera lava domes that arose along a southwest–northeastern trend cutting through the center of the calderas. Dome growth occurred progressively to the south, and the largest and youngest of them, Mount Kami, forms the high point of Hakone. The calderas are breached to the east by the Haya River canyon. Mount Ashigara is a parasitic cone. The latest magmatic eruptive activity at Hakone occurred 2,900 years ago. It produced a pyroclastic flow and a lava dome in the explosion crater, although phreatic eruptions took place as recently as the 12–13th centuries AD. According to the nea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
July Observances
July is the seventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and is the fourth of seven months to have a length of 31 days. It was named by the Roman Senate in honour of Roman general Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., it being the month of his birth. Before then it was called Quintilis, being the fifth month of the calendar that started with March. It is on average the warmest month in most of the Northern Hemisphere, where it is the second month of summer, and the coldest month in much of the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the second month of winter. The second half of the year commences in July. In the Southern Hemisphere, July is the seasonal equivalent of January in the Northern hemisphere. "Dog days" are considered to begin in early July in the Northern Hemisphere, when the hot sultry weather of summer usually starts. Spring lambs born in late winter or early spring are usually sold before 1 July. July symbols *July's birthstone is the ruby, which symboliz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddhist Festivals In Japan
Buddhism ( , ), also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya (), is an Indian religion or philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha. It originated in northern India as a -movement in the 5th century BCE, and gradually spread throughout much of Asia via the Silk Road. It is the world's fourth-largest religion, with over 520 million followers (Buddhists) who comprise seven percent of the global population. The Buddha taught the Middle Way, a path of spiritual development that avoids both extreme asceticism and hedonism. It aims at liberation from clinging and craving to things which are impermanent (), incapable of satisfying ('), and without a lasting essence (), ending the cycle of death and rebirth (). A summary of this path is expressed in the Noble Eightfold Path, a training of the mind with observance of Buddhist ethics and meditation. Other widely observed practices include: monasticism; "taking refuge" in the Buddha, the , and the ; and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annual Events In Japan , in biology
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Annual may refer to: *Annual publication, periodical publications appearing regularly once per year **Yearbook **Literary annual *Annual plant *Annual report *Annual giving *Annual, Morocco, a settlement in northeastern Morocco *Annuals (band), a musical group See also * Annual Review (other) * Circannual cycle A circannual cycle is a biological process that occurs in living creatures over the period of approximately one year. This cycle was first discovered by Ebo Gwinner and Canadian biologist Ted Pengelley. It is classified as an Infradian rhythm, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagichō Fire Festival
The Sagichō Fire Festival (), also called the Dondoyaki () or by other names, is celebrated in Japan, usually on January 14 or January 15. It is a local event in each village or town to burn away the '' gate pine'' and other New Year's decoratons as well as to pray for the New Year's best fortune. Some Sagichō festivals are related to the Shintoist shrines. The Sagichō fire festival has been celebrated in Japan at least since the 13th century, as it is mentioned in monk Kenkō's ''Tsurezuregusa''. Because it used to be celebrated on January 14 or 15 on the lunar calendar, its origin may have been related to the Lantern Festival in China. Some Sagichō fire festivals that have become famous as tourist attractions are: the Dōsojin Fire Festival celebrated under in winter's snow in Nozawaonsen, Nagano; the Sagicho Fire Festival held on the seacoast in Oiso, Kanagawa; etc. The Japanese-style fire festival is also celebrated at Japanese Shintoist shrines overseas, such as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gozan No Okuribi
, more commonly known as , 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 mountains surrounding the city. It signifies the moment when the spirits of deceased family members, who are said to visit this world during Obon, are believed to be returning to the spirit world—thus the name . History The origins of the festival are obscure, but it is believed to be ancient. Specific families have the hereditary duty of organizing all the logistics of the bonfires, and they spend many hours annually providing volunteer labor to maintain this tradition. Schedule Starting at 8 pm, the giant bonfires are lit, each with a distinctive shape. Three of the fires form giant kanji characters, and two form familiar shapes. The characters, their locations, meanings, and the lighting times are: *, the character meaning "large" or "great", is lit on Daimonji-Yama/Higashi-Yama, Nyoigatake at 8 pm; *, the cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Myōjō
Mount Myōjō or Myōjōgatake () is a mountain with an altitude of 924 meters on the border of Odawara and Hakone, Kanagawa, as one of the ancient sommas on Mount Hakone's old outer rim. It is part of Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. Although it is a low mountain of less than 1,000 meters in Hakone, it looks high from Odawara, with the Evening Star shining above it, so it got its name "Myojo" which means the Evening or Morning Star. The trail from this mountain to Mount Kintoki via Mount Myōjin (Kanagawa) is one of the most popular hiking trails in Mount Hakone In the evening of August 16th, the last day of the annual Bon Festival, the Burning of the Character Big The Burning of the Character "Big" (大), also known as Daimonjiyaki () or Daimonji Festival is the Japanese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhist ritual of burning wood in the character "Big" (大), typically in the mountain, on the last day of the 4-day B ... ritual ( :ja:大文字焼き) is conducted on Mount Myōjin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gōra Station
is a terminal railway station on the Hakone Tozan Line as well as the Hakone Tozan Cable Car, and is located in Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan. It is 15.0 km from the Hakone Tozan Line's southern terminus at Odawara Station. At an altitude of , it is the highest railway station in Kanagawa Prefecture. Lines Gōra Station is served by the Hakone Tozan Line and also by the Hakone Tozan Cable Car. Station layout Gōra Station has two side platforms, which are staggered, so that they do not directly oppose each other. History Gōra Station was opened on June 1, 1919 as a station on the Hakone Tozan Line. The Hakone Tozan Cable Car began operations from December 1, 1921, but operations were suspended from February 11, 1944 through July 1, 1950. The present station building was opened on April 16, 1977. Bus services *Hakone Tozan Bus **Bus stop 1 *** for Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kowaki-en (transfer for Moto-Hakone ( Lake Ashi) direction), Yunessun, and Ten-yu **Bus stop 2 *** for Gora Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyoto, Kyoto
Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the city had a population of 1.46 million. The city is the cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 3.8 million people. Kyoto is one of the oldest municipalities in Japan, having been chosen in 794 as the new seat of Japan's imperial court by Emperor Kanmu. The original city, named Heian-kyō, was arranged in accordance with traditional Chinese feng shui following the model of the ancient Chinese capital of Chang'an/Luoyang. The emperors of Japan ruled from Kyoto in the following eleven centuries until 1869. It was the scene of several key events of the Muromachi period, Sengoku period, and the Boshin War, such as the Ōnin War, the Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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