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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
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The Yomiuri Shimbun

Flying through the autumn sky

(Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

A 20-meter-long dragon chases after a golden ball Monday as part of the Nagasaki Kunchi Festival, a traditional autumn event dating back to the Edo period (1603-1867), at Suwa Shrine in Nagasaki City. Districts in the city known as odori-cho participate once every seven years in the festival, which is designated as a national important intangible folk cultural property. Among the five odori-cho appearing this year, the Kagomachi district performed the dragon dance, using the first newly created dragon in about half a century. Each odori-cho will perform around the center of the city until Wednesday.

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