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Shinpei Goto's birthday (Iwate Prefecture)

Shinpei Goto (Source: Wikipedia)
Shinpei Goto Source:Wikipedia

a physician, bureaucrat, and politician of the Meiji era, was bornShinpei Goto,on July 24, 1857(June 4, 4th year of the Ansei era in the Gregorian calendar) in Shiogama Village, Izawa District, Mutsu Province (present-day Mizusawa, Oshu City, Iwate Prefecture) as the eldest son of Sanetaka and Rie Goto, retainers of the Rusu family, a branch of the Sendai Domain.

due to the sheer scale of his plans"the grandiose man"He was nicknamed

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Aizu-Tajima Gion Festival (Fukushima Prefecture)

Aizu-Tajima Gion Festival "Tadeuga Shrine"
Aizu-Tajima Gion Festival "Tadeuga Shrine"

Every year,July 22nd to 24thin Tajima, Minamiaizu Town, Fukushima Prefecturethe Aizu Tajima Gion Festivalis held

the largest bridal procession in Japan,known asThe Nanahokai procession,is famous. It consists of about 30 women dressed in the Edo period bridal attire of "long-sleeved kimono with their hair covered by a tsunokakushi (a type of bridal headdress) and styled in a bunkin takashimada hairstyle," along with over 100 relatives and retainers of the Otoya group, who march toward the shrine to offer seven offerings.

the final dayOnJuly 24that the Kagura Hall shared by Tadeuga Shrine and Kumano Shrine"Dadai Okagura"the festival concludes with the performance of

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