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Japan: Historic Kishiwada Danjiri Festival Kicks Off in Osaka With Massive Floats

The annual Kishiwada Danjiri Festival began on September 13 in Kishiwada City, Osaka Prefecture, running through September 14. Thirty-four massive wooden floats, each over 4 meters tall and weighing more than 4 tons, raced through the city streets of the Kishiwada and Haruki districts to the spirited chant of “Sorya, Sorya.” Festival participants in matching happi coats pulled the floats with ropes, while “daiku-gata” performers danced atop the roofs with fans. At intersections, the floats performed the festival’s signature “yarimawashi,” a dramatic 90-degree turn executed at high speed, thrilling spectators with cheers. Drums, flutes, and bells added to the festive atmosphere. The festival, held for over 300 years since the Edo period, continues late into the evening on September 13, with a ceremonial shrine visit (“Miyairi”) scheduled on September 14.

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Kyoto's winter delicacy in season at old pickle factory

KYOTO, Japan - "Happi" jacket-clad workers at Daiyasu, a time-honored producer of Japanese pickles, put sliced turnips into barrels to prepare Kyoto's staple pickles, "Senmaizuke," in the ancient capital in western Japan on Nov. 7, 2014.

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Turnip-pickling season starts for Kyoto winter delicacy

KYOTO, Japan - "Happi" jacket-clad workers at Daiyasu, a time-honored producer of Japanese pickles, line up sliced turnips as they prepare Kyoto's staple pickles, "Senmaizuke," in the ancient capital in western Japan on Nov. 7, 2014.

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Man seeks to keep 100-year tradition of platform vending

YAMAGATA, Japan - Daisuke Kosugi in a "happi" coat walks along a train at a station selling rice cakes in Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug 4, 2014, as he attempts to maintain the tradition of platform vending, lasting more than 100 years. The practice involving active conversations with passengers is almost extinct due to changes in the train system.

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Japanese culinary culture promoted at Oxford Univ. in U.K.

OXFORD, Britain - Japanese staffers in "happi" coats serve "sake" rice wine to formally dressed students and alumni of Oxford University in Oxford, Britain, on June 27, 2014, at a traditional banquet of the university.

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Beatles in Japan in 1966

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the Beatles, wearing Japanese "happi" coats and waving to fans upon arrival at Tokyo's Haneda airport in June 1966.

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Castro asks Japanese to tell of nuclear experience

HAVANA, Cuba - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro (L) wears a ''happi'' coat presented by a Japanese delegation in Havana on March 1, 2012. Castro took part in a gathering of Japanese atomic-bomb survivors organized by the Cuban government and a Japanese NGO that day in the Cuban capital and called on them to convey to the world their experiences regarding the recent nuclear crisis in Japan and the 1945 U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Bankers count money offered at Osaka shrine

OSAKA, Japan - Female bank staffers wearing traditional Japanese happi coats count money given as offerings during the annual ''Toka Ebisu'' festival at Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka on Jan. 12, 2012. During the festival that took place Jan. 9-11, some 940,000 people visited the shrine and gave offerings totaling an estimated 45 million yen.

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Bankers count money offered at Osaka shrine

OSAKA, Japan - Female bank staffers wearing traditional Japanese happi coats count money given as offerings during the annual ''Toka Ebisu'' festival at Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka on Jan. 12, 2012. During the festival that took place Jan. 9-11, some 940,000 people visited the shrine and gave offerings totaling an estimated 45 million yen.

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Miyagi residents thank U.S. forces for relief efforts

TOKYO, Japan - Lt. Gen. Burton Field (2nd from L), the commander of U.S. forces in Japan, receives a fisherman's flag bearing messages from residents of Miyagi Prefecture and happi coats at a ceremony in Tokyo on July 25, 2011, to thank U.S. forces for their support following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Sagawa Express opens center with medieval-style couriers

KYOTO, Japan - A parcel delivery service center, at which staff dress like ''hikyaku'' foot couriers from medieval Japan, was opened in Kyoto by Sagawa Express Co. on June 21, 2010. The new center is located in a renovated house in Kyoto's popular Gion entertainment district, offering pickup and delivery services by four staff members dressed in traditional happi coats.

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Bankers count money offered at shrine

OSAKA, Japan - Female bank staffers wearing traditional Japanese happi coats count money given as offerings during the annual ''Toka Ebisu'' festival at Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka, on Jan. 12, 2010. During the festival that took place Jan. 9 through 11, some 1 million people visited the shrine, about 70,000 more than last year due to the three-day weekend, and gave offerings totaling around 45 million yen, about the same amount as last year.

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Bankers count money offered at shrine

OSAKA, Japan - Female bank staffers wearing traditional Japanese happi coats hold money given as offerings during the annual ''Toka Ebisu'' festival at Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka, on Jan. 12, 2010. Eleven bankers counted the offerings, estimated to total 45 million yen, that were collected during the three-day event at the shrine held Jan. 9 through 11 which drew about 1 million people.

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Bankers count money offered at shrine

OSAKA, Japan - Female bank staffers wearing traditional Japanese happi coats count money given as offerings during the annual ''Toka Ebisu'' festival at Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka, on Jan. 12, 2010. During the festival that took place Jan. 9 through 11, some 1 million people visited the shrine, about 70,000 more than last year due to the three-day weekend, and gave offerings totaling around 45 million yen, about the same amount as last year.

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Japanese hot-spring area makes 'happi' coats for Obama family

NAGASAKI, Japan - The proprietress of a Japanese-style inn Yumiko Kusano (2nd from L) and three members of a tourism association in the Obama hot-spring area of Unzen, Nagasaki Prefecture, pose Jan. 14 wearing and showing blue ''happi'' coats. They specially made them for U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and their two daughters to celebrate his upcoming inauguration. Kusano is secretary general of the group ''Change Obama no kai (Change Obama association)'' which consists of proprietresses and other local people. The group tailored the Japanese coats, with ''President Obama'' written on one of the collars and ''Nagasaki, Obama Hot Spring'' on the other in white for the couple, getting their measurements via the Internet.

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Ancient tradition of antler trimming lives on at Nara deer park

NARA, Japan - Helped by deer chasers in happi coats and watched by a huge crowd, a Shinto priest saws off the antlers of a deer at the deer park in Nara on Oct. 6, an ancient tradition dating back to around 1671. The practice is intended to prevent young, rampaging deer from hurting people or fellow deer in the park. The antler-trimming ceremony will also be held Oct. 7 and 8, from noon to 3 p.m. Admission is 1,000 yen for adults and 300 yen for children.

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(4)Japan, ASEAN start 2-day summit in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri (L), Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (C) and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, all clad in ''happi coats,'' give a toast during a dinner party at a hotel in Tokyo on Dec. 11, the first day of the two-day summit of leaders from Japan and 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). (Pool photo)

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(1)Sweden hold practice match in Miyazaki

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Swedish soccer players look at their flag being hoisted May 27 prior to their practice match with a select team of local players from amateur clubs in Miyazaki Prefecture. The Swedish players wear Japanese 'happi' coats presented to them. (2002 World Cup)

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MIYAZAKI, Japan - Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru (C), clad in a happi coat, samples grilled chicken at a Miyazaki products fair at a hotel in Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Jan. 25 to demonstrate that Miyazaki-bred chicken are safe for consumption. More than 1,300 chickens have died at a chicken farm in Hyuga, Miyazaki Prefecture, this week, after another chicken farm in the prefecture was infected by the deadly H5N1 bird flu earlier this month. (Kyodo)

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(4)Japan, ASEAN start 2-day summit in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri (L), Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (C) and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, all clad in ''happi coats,'' give a toast during a dinner party at a hotel in Tokyo on Dec. 11, the first day of the two-day summit of leaders from Japan and 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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The Olympic Games in Tokyo come to an end

At the Tokyo Olympics Abebe won the marathon for the second consecutive time the men's gymnastics team won five gold medals including Endo's and the women's volleyball team won gold with the witch still alive. Men's marathon: Kokichi Tsuburaya Kenji Kimihara Toru Terasawa Abebe Bikila Basil Heatley Ron Clark Men's gymnastics team: Takashi Ono Yukio Endo Haruhiro Yamashita Judo: Akio Kaminaga vs. Judo: Akio Kaminaga vs. Heising Princess Michiko of Japan volleyball match between Japan and USSR Coach Omatsu Gold medal Closing ceremony: Light of Fireflies Yoyogi Athletes' Village Commemorative photo Signing autographs Celebration party Watching foreign athletes' kabuki Tea Happi coat Present: Watching sumo wrestling Haneda Airport *Filming date unknown Release date: October 30 1964

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The Olympic Games in Tokyo come to an end.

At the Tokyo Olympics, Abebe won the marathon for the second consecutive time, the men's gymnastics team won five gold medals, including Endo's, and the women's volleyball team won gold with the witch still alive. 　 Men's marathon: Kokichi Tsuburaya, Kenji Kimihara, Toru Terasawa, Abebe Bikila, Basil Heatley, Ron Clark, Men's gymnastics team: Takashi Ono, Yukio Endo, Haruhiro Yamashita, Judo: Akio Kaminaga vs. Judo: Akio Kaminaga vs. Heising, Princess Michiko of Japan volleyball match between Japan and USSR, Coach Omatsu Gold medal, Closing ceremony: Light of Fireflies, Yoyogi Athletes' Village, Commemorative photo, Signing autographs, Celebration party, Watching foreign athletes' kabuki, Tea, Happi coat Present: Watching sumo wrestling, Haneda Airport, *Filming date unknown, Release date: October 30, 1964, .

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Tigers happi coat at work

OSAKA, Japan- A Sumitomo Trust Bank employee in Osaka puts on a Hanshin Tigers happi coat at work on June 25. (Kyodo)

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Tigers happi coat at work

OSAKA, Japan- A Sumitomo Trust Bank employee in Osaka puts on a Hanshin Tigers happi coat at work on June 25. (Kyodo)

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Britain's Prince William in Tokyo

Britain's Prince William (2nd from R) puts on a "happi coat," a Japanese traditional wear often worn on festive occasions, at an event hosted by the British government in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Feb. 27, 2015, to introduce Britain's latest technologies in medical and space development fields. The Duke of Cambridge, 32, started his first Japan visit the previous day and will stay in the country through March 1. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Britain's Prince William in Tokyo

Britain's Prince William waves wearing a "happi coat," a Japanese traditional wear often worn on festive occasions, at an event hosted by the British government in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Feb. 27, 2015, to introduce Britain's latest technologies in medical and space development fields. The Duke of Cambridge, 32, started his first Japan visit the previous day and will stay in the country through March 1. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese hot-spring area makes 'happi' coats for Obama family

NAGASAKI, Japan - The proprietress of a Japanese-style inn Yumiko Kusano (2nd from L) and three members of a tourism association in the Obama hot-spring area of Unzen, Nagasaki Prefecture, pose Jan. 14 wearing and showing blue ''happi'' coats. They specially made them for U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and their two daughters to celebrate his upcoming inauguration. Kusano is secretary general of the group ''Change Obama no kai (Change Obama association)'' which consists of proprietresses and other local people. The group tailored the Japanese coats, with ''President Obama'' written on one of the collars and ''Nagasaki, Obama Hot Spring'' on the other in white for the couple, getting their measurements via the Internet. (Kyodo)

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Ancient tradition of antler trimming lives on at Nara deer park

NARA, Japan - Helped by deer chasers in happi coats and watched by a huge crowd, a Shinto priest saws off the antlers of a deer at the deer park in Nara on Oct. 6, an ancient tradition dating back to around 1671. The practice is intended to prevent young, rampaging deer from hurting people or fellow deer in the park. The antler-trimming ceremony will also be held Oct. 7 and 8, from noon to 3 p.m. Admission is 1,000 yen for adults and 300 yen for children. (Kyodo)

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(1)Sweden hold practice match in Miyazaki

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Swedish soccer players look at their flag being hoisted May 27 prior to their practice match with a select team of local players from amateur clubs in Miyazaki Prefecture. The Swedish players wear Japanese 'happi' coats presented to them. (2002 World Cup)

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Firemen

Two fire-fighters stand on each side of a matoi (fireman's standard), both sides, and two other fire-fighters sit in front wearing happi (workman's livery coats). The man on the extreme left holds a fire hook in his right hand, and the two men standing in the middle hold a fireman's standard. The fireman's standard has the number 16 printed on it.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number13‐14‐0]

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Bamboo groove at Gojozaka Slope

A rickshaw driver in a happi coat sits on his rickshaw posing for the camera. Bamboo fencing made of bamboo grass tied to bamboo poles prevents the bamboo from encroaching upon the path. The path is narrow and rickshaws can barely pass each other. Taken prior to 1909, when the slope was expanded to a width of 7.2 meters.==Date:unknown, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number88‐8‐0]

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A woman in firefighter attire

A female firefighter poses in a photograph studio. She is wearing a happi coat with Kuroda Masaru printed on it, a head band and a waist belt. She has a dagger in her left hand and her left foot on a tree stump. The picture scroll depicting a natural landscape and the tree stump are studio props.==Date:unknown, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number72‐131‐0]

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A man with a bamboo hat,holding a lantern

The man with a woven bamboo hat may be an actor or entertainer or may just be wearing a festival costume. He is wearing a happi coat and holding a paper lantern with the word banzai (ten thousand years).==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number71‐88‐0]

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Greeting man and woman

A wife dressed in everyday clothes and a craftsman in patchi (long underwear), happi and sandals exchange greetings in front of her house. The man has a top-knot, but this is obviouslya wig. (Dramatized photo)==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number18‐43‐0]

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A carpenter

Carried on page 115 of the September 3, 1872 edition of The Far East. The title says a carpenter going off to work , but there is no explanation in the article. A carpenter with a top knot and wearing a happi carries a tool box with a plane and saw on his back.==Date:First year of Meiji, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number17‐52‐0]

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A vegetable vendor

A grocer and woman customer. The grocer is barefoot and wears a happi coat. He has his balancing pole on the ground and holds Japanese radishes in both hands. Japanese radishes are also in the two baskets placed on top of each other, and the woman sits with a basket. The background is a picture. To the right is a reed screen.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number16‐2‐0]

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A woman on a jinrikisha

There are rickshaws for one passenger and two passengers, and the number of rickshaw men was increased or reduced according to the number of passengers. Many of the rickshaw men were dressed with kasa, happi, matahiki (pants), leg straps, and sandals, and some wore hair bands and loinclothes.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number15‐20‐0]

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Castro asks Japanese to tell of nuclear experience

HAVANA, Cuba - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro (L) wears a ''happi'' coat presented by a Japanese delegation in Havana on March 1, 2012. Castro took part in a gathering of Japanese atomic-bomb survivors organized by the Cuban government and a Japanese NGO that day in the Cuban capital and called on them to convey to the world their experiences regarding the recent nuclear crisis in Japan and the 1945 U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Kyodo)

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Miyagi residents thank U.S. forces for relief efforts

TOKYO, Japan - Masako Matsuda (L), a 56-year-old housewife from Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, shakes hands with Lt. Gen. Burton Field, the commander of U.S. forces in Japan, during a ceremony in Tokyo on July 25, 2011, to thank U.S. forces for their support following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Field was presented with five fisherman's flags bearing messages from residents of the prefecture and six happi coats. (Kyodo)

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Miyagi residents thank U.S. forces for relief efforts

TOKYO, Japan - Lt. Gen. Burton Field (2nd from L), the commander of U.S. forces in Japan, receives a fisherman's flag bearing messages from residents of Miyagi Prefecture and happi coats at a ceremony in Tokyo on July 25, 2011, to thank U.S. forces for their support following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Sagawa Express opens center with medieval-style couriers

KYOTO, Japan - A parcel delivery service center, at which staff dress like ''hikyaku'' foot couriers from medieval Japan, was opened in Kyoto by Sagawa Express Co. on June 21, 2010. The new center is located in a renovated house in Kyoto's popular Gion entertainment district, offering pickup and delivery services by four staff members dressed in traditional happi coats. (Kyodo)

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Turnip-pickling season starts for Kyoto winter delicacy

KYOTO, Japan - "Happi" jacket-clad workers at Daiyasu, a time-honored producer of Japanese pickles, line up sliced turnips as they prepare Kyoto's staple pickles, "Senmaizuke," in the ancient capital in western Japan on Nov. 7, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Bankers count money offered at Osaka shrine

OSAKA, Japan - Female bank staffers wearing traditional Japanese happi coats count money given as offerings during the annual ''Toka Ebisu'' festival at Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka on Jan. 12, 2012. During the festival that took place Jan. 9-11, some 940,000 people visited the shrine and gave offerings totaling an estimated 45 million yen. (Kyodo)

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Bankers count money offered at Osaka shrine

OSAKA, Japan - Female bank staffers wearing traditional Japanese happi coats count money given as offerings during the annual ''Toka Ebisu'' festival at Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka on Jan. 12, 2012. During the festival that took place Jan. 9-11, some 940,000 people visited the shrine and gave offerings totaling an estimated 45 million yen. (Kyodo)

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Bankers count money offered at shrine

OSAKA, Japan - Female bank staffers wearing traditional Japanese happi coats hold money given as offerings during the annual ''Toka Ebisu'' festival at Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka, on Jan. 12, 2010. Eleven bankers counted the offerings, estimated to total 45 million yen, that were collected during the three-day event at the shrine held Jan. 9 through 11 which drew about 1 million people. (Kyodo)

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Bankers count money offered at shrine

OSAKA, Japan - Female bank staffers wearing traditional Japanese happi coats count money given as offerings during the annual ''Toka Ebisu'' festival at Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka, on Jan. 12, 2010. During the festival that took place Jan. 9 through 11, some 1 million people visited the shrine, about 70,000 more than last year due to the three-day weekend, and gave offerings totaling around 45 million yen, about the same amount as last year. (Kyodo)

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Bankers count money offered at shrine

OSAKA, Japan - Female bank staffers wearing traditional Japanese happi coats count money given as offerings during the annual ''Toka Ebisu'' festival at Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka, on Jan. 12, 2010. During the festival that took place Jan. 9 through 11, some 1 million people visited the shrine, about 70,000 more than last year due to the three-day weekend, and gave offerings totaling around 45 million yen, about the same amount as last year. (Kyodo)

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Pope Francis in Japan

Pope Francis (R) smiles dressed in a traditional Japanese "happi" coat during a meeting with a group of young people at St. Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2019. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pope Francis in Japan

Pope Francis (R) smiles dressed in a traditional Japanese "happi" coat during a meeting with a group of young people at St. Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2019. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pope in Japan

Pope Francis (R) smiles dressed in a traditional Japanese "happi" coat during a meeting with a group of young people at St. Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2019. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo