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Shichi-Go-San🇯🇵 JapanIn 6 weeks
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Niiname-no-Matsuri🇯🇵 Tokyo, JapanIn 7 weeks
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Gion Festival🇯🇵 Kyoto, Japan
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Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival🇯🇵 Fukuoka, Japan
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Tobata Gion Yamagasa Festival🇯🇵 Tobata-ku, Japan
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Tenjin Matsuri🇯🇵 Osaka, Japan
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SpiritualPhoto credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Gion Festival: 江戸村のとくぞう, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Hatsumōde: KKPCW, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Saint Patrick's Day: rannṗáirtí anaiṫnid ( coṁrá ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Gozan no Okuribi: J_o, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival: Pontafon, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Oku-noto no Aenokoto: Yasu ( talk ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Obon Festival: Batholith, Public domain, source
- Tết: vi:Lưu Ly, Public domain, source
- Shichi-Go-San: Bergmann at Japanese Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, source
- Tanabata: Laika ac, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Setsubun: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Buddha's Birthday: User: (WT-shared) Manoj nav at wts wikivoyage, Public domain, source
- Hōnen Matsuri: KKPCW, CC BY 3.0, source
- Higan: Kakidai, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Tobata Gion Yamagasa Festival: User:Historian, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Niiname-no-Matsuri: No machine-readable author provided. N yotarou assumed (based on copyr, CC BY 2.5, source
- Sannō Matsuri: 江戸村のとくぞう (Edomura no Tokuzo), CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Tenjin Matsuri: 663highland, CC BY 2.5, source
- Onbashira Festival: Si-take. at Japanese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Christmas: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Public domain, source
- Vesak: ผู้สร้างสรรค์ผลงาน/ส่งข้อมูลเก็บในคลังข้อมูลเสรีวิกิมีเดียคอมมอนส์ - เ, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ghost Festival: Chong Fat, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sanja Matsuri: View_of_mikoshi_from_sensoji_Sanja_Matsuri_2006-2.jpg : * View_of_miko, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kanda Matsuri: Jose Fernando, CC BY-SA 2.0, source