Festivals
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The traditional Japanese calendar features a number of regularly occurring annual festivals.
Five of these festivals were known together as the gosekku (five seasonal festivals). They consist of:
- Jinjitsu no sekku - 1st month, 7th day, seven herbs were eaten. Also known as Nanakusa no sekku, Wakana no sekku.
- Jômi no sekku - 3/3, Girls' Festival, Dolls Festival, aka Hina matsuri
- Tango no sekku - 5/5 Boys' Festival, aka Kodomo no hi
- Tanabata - 7/7 The festival of the Weaver Star
- Chôyô no sekku - 9/9, Chrysanthemum Festival
During the Tokugawa period, the first, 15th, and 28th days of each month were also ceremonial days.
References
- Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 286n122.
