'Fox dance' fiesta held in northwestern Japan

'Fox dance' fiesta held in northwestern Japan

OITA, Japan - Children disguising themselves as foxes perform a frolicsome fox dance by holding lantern-lit umbrellas during a "bon" midsummer Buddhist festival in Himeshima, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 14, 2014. The fox dance originates from a Buddhist incantation dance in the Kamakura era (1192-1333). (Kyodo)

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