The Awa odori Festival held each year between the 12th-15th of August in Tokushima city is the largest festival Awa odori event in Japan, and is visited each year by as many as one million people, both from Japan and from abroad.
What the local organizer focused on was washi, or traditional Japanese paper, with its markedly longer and thinner fibers than Western papers, its toughness, and the distinctive textures evident in such varieties as Mino, Awa and Echizen.
Following lessons and rehearsals given by dancers from famous ren, you can head for the venues so that even beginners can happily take part in the Awa Odori and get surrounded by the area's passion.
The meat and products of hunted wild boar and deer, nurtured by the nature of Tokushima, are named"AWA GIBIER," which you can savor at various places in Tokushima Prefecture.
At the Awa Odori Hall which seats a maximum of 250 people, there is a 40-minute program held by the Awa-no-Kaze troupe belonging to Awa Odori Kaikan which is performed 3 times a day in the afternoon and 4 times on weekends and holidays.
The Best Three Types of Meat in the Awa Region Awa no sanchiku 阿波の三畜 refers to the three types of livestock raised in Tokushima: Awa beef(Awa gyū), Awa pork and Awa chicken Awa odori.
About 1 hour 15 minutes's ride on Tsurugisan Limited Express(to Awa Ikeda) from JR Tokushima Station on the Tokushima Line, change at JR Awa Ikeda Station and take the Dosan Line Nanpu Limited Express(to Kochi) for about 20 minutes, alighting at JR Oboke Station.
Held over four days in the center of the city of Tokushima, the Awa Odori features chants of"eraiyatcha, eraiyatcha," the flowing rhythm of flutes, drums, and shamisen, and multitudes of dancers in yukata summer kimonos.
Got on the bus to Yangshuo(station entrance 10 yuan/ person, 15 minutes), the train all the way to release the energy savings, for Guilin, a characteristic of such a mound mound's"going to the toilet Mountain"(from Awa quotations) endless curiosity.
About 100,000 dancers take part during the 4 days of the festival with 1.3 million watchers. There are dance stages set up in Tokushima's parks and streets as the Awa Odori takes firm hold of the city in a fever grip via Odori Road.
Schneider created a contemporary fusuma-e, representing the combination of her western thought and methods with Japanese history, culture, her impressions, and the papers(washi) and Awa indigo dyes which she encountered.
Visiting a Sugar Refinery I visited the Hattori Sugar Refinery in Awa, Tokushima Prefecture, which still uses traditional methods for every stage of the production process, from cultivation of sugar cane to the processing of wasanbon.
This mall holds various events, many of which are famous across the Kanto Area, including the Shimokitazawa Ichibangai Awa-Odori(dance festival) in the summer, the Shimokitazawa Tengu Festival featuring the legendary tengu creature in the winter and various music festivals and fairs.
It has whirlpools which are one of the three major tides in the world, one of the nation's three great bridges Kazura Bridge, one of Japan's three great remote onsen Iya Onsen and the Awa Odori which is the 400-year-old dance known to be one of the nation's three major Bon dances.
The last day dating nahyeon and hakjin at cafe, Yoon Seo is the only brewery, Yeti Awa jongchan haetneundeyo is directed to the aquarium only dating and chinhaejin Yoon Seo, unlike the dating of the earlier low cut hakjin, First he drew attention to reaching aggressive appearance.
In order to solve the universal issues of air pollution, water pollution, and energy problems, we work on the development of functional materials using Awa Paper core technologies, and we will continue to contribute to the future society through the development and manufacture of products meeting new market needs aimed at harmony with the environment.
Tokushima's largest souvenir shop and a ropeway station At the Awa Odori Museum on the 3rd floor, you can view displays of the Awa Odori costumes and musical instruments and games as well as learn about the appeal and history of Awa Odori, and there is even the Awa Odori 3D Theater where you can enjoy a 3D video of Awa Odori.
Until near the Aba county, but they were the latest of town on a hilltop stop their cars and could not help but washed off to overlook the panoramic Aba, spotless blue sky in my head, with open arms Shengelanyao, it seems then the trouble could touch the clouds of heaven.
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