Women dressed in red "happi" coats participated in the "Gal Mikoshi" event July 23 ahead of Osaka's Tenjin Festival (July 24-25), a summer tr･･･ ...

On July 23, women in red "happi" coats took part in the "Gal Mikoshi" event before Osaka's Tenjin Festival. This is a special ...

Hundreds of residents gathered at Kurihama beach outside Tokyo over the weekend to pray for marine safety in a summer ...

HOLD- Participants carry a portable shrine, or mikoshi, into the sea during a purification rite at the annual Kurihama Sumiyoshi Shrine Festival at Kurihama, Yokosuka city, south of Tokyo Sunday ...

Involving some 100 mikoshi and attracting crowds of well over a million people, the Sanja Matsuri is one of the biggest of the thousands of festivals that bring color and exhilaration to people ...

The API failed to deliver the resource. King Kekaulike high school students were announced as the 2025 winners of the Honolulu Festival’s annual Maui Mikoshi design contest.

The processions often feature a mikoshi, a 'divine palanquin', used to carry a kami (or an image of a kami). The mikoshi is often described as a portable altar or portable shrine.

The mikoshi had started from Sumiyoshi Shrine and was paraded through neighborhood alleyways. Shrine priests paused to bless offerings and pray for good fortune for people gathered outside their ...

As a portable shrine called mikoshi, decorated with Shinto ornaments, was lifted onto bearers’ shoulders, the audience cheered. The mikoshi had started from Sumiyoshi Shrine and was paraded ...