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About 1200 years ago, the Japanese Buddhist priest En’nin was studying Buddhism in China. One night he had a mysterious dream. In the dream a holly monk said to him, “When you return to Japan, go eastward. You will find a sacred mountain in thirty days walk from Kyoto. Carve a statue of the bodhisattva […]

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“Goshogawara Tachineputa” is one of the biggest summer festivals in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. The characters displayed on the floats are huge lanterns.  Back in the early 1900s, Neputa was a symbol for power and wealth for people like farmers, land owners and merchants. It mostly meant “rich merchants”, especially in Goshogawara. The Nunokas were known […]

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