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Myanmar's pilgrims flock to participate in traditional Kason water pouring festival

STORY: Myanmar's pilgrims flock to participate in traditional Kason water pouring festival SHOOTING TIME: May 22, 2024 DATELINE: May 22, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:01 LOCATION: YANGON, Myanmar CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of activities held at the Shwedagon Pagoda STORYLINE: On Wednesday, pilgrims in Myanmar gathered at the Shwedagon Pagoda to join in the traditional Kason water pouring festival on the Kason Full Moon Day. The Kason water pouring festival, now in its 41st year, is organized annually by the pagoda's board of trustees, U Boe Thin, a member of the Shwedagon Pagoda Board of Trustees, told Xinhua. The Bodhi tree, considered the birth partner of Lord Buddha, is treated with great reverence. Water pouring ceremonies are held to cool and bring peace to the tree during the hot season, he said. Kason Full Moon Day, also known as Buddha Day, commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and death of Buddha, all of which are believed to have occurred on this day. As a significant religious occas

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MYANMAR-YANGON-KASON FULLMOON DAY-CELEBRATION

(240522) -- YANGON, May 22, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People water a Bodhi tree on the Fullmoon Day of Kason at the Botahtaung Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, May 22, 2024. (Xinhua/Myo Kyaw Soe)

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MYANMAR-YANGON-KASON FULLMOON DAY-CELEBRATION

(240522) -- YANGON, May 22, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A woman waters a Bodhi tree on the Fullmoon Day of Kason at the Botahtaung Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, May 22, 2024. (Xinhua/Myo Kyaw Soe)

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MYANMAR-YANGON-KASON FULLMOON DAY-CELEBRATION

(240522) -- YANGON, May 22, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A woman waters a Bodhi tree on the Fullmoon Day of Kason at the Botahtaung Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, May 22, 2024. (Xinhua/Myo Kyaw Soe)

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MYANMAR-YANGON-KASON FULLMOON DAY-CELEBRATION

(240522) -- YANGON, May 22, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A woman prays on the Fullmoon Day of Kason at the Botahtaung Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, May 22, 2024. (Xinhua/Myo Kyaw Soe)

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Shirakawa, 5 others awarded Order of Culture by emperor

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel laureate Hideki Shirakawa (Far L) and five others sit in a photo session Nov. 3 at the Imperial Palace after they were awarded this year's Order of Culture by Emperor Akihito. Next to Shirakawa is leather craftswoman Fukuko Okubo, 81, followed by calligrapher Kason Sugioka, 87, actress Isuzu Yamada, 83, sinologist Tadao Ishikawa, 78, and organic chemist Ryoji Noyori, 62. At the ceremony, which started at 10:30 a.m., the emperor decorated each of the recipients, who then received a certificate from Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori.

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Nobel laureate Shirakawa gets cultural order

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show the six winners of this year's Order of Culture named Oct. 24. (Upper, from L to R) sinologist Tadao Ishikawa, leather craftswoman Fukuko Okubo and Nobel laureate Hideki Shirakawa, (lower, from L to R) calligrapher Kason Sugioka, organic chemist Ryoji Noyori and actress Isuzu Yamada. They will receive their order from Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace on Culture Day on Nov. 3.

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Myanmar people celebrate full moon day of Kason

STORY: Myanmar people celebrate full moon day of Kason DATELINE: May 15, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:16 LOCATION: Yangon CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Myanmar people celebrating STORYLINE: Myanmar people, especially Buddhists, ritually watered the sacred Bodhi Trees across the country on Vesak or Buddha Day on Saturday. Ashin Varitta, a 33-year-old Buddhist monk from Myanmar's Mandalay, told Xinhua that Vesak or Buddha Day in Myanmar falls on the full moon day of Kason, the second month of Myanmar lunar calendar. "Vesak is the most important of all the Buddhist festivals, and Myanmar people mostly celebrate the day watering the Bodhi Trees," Varitta said, adding that other Buddhist countries also celebrate in their own traditions. The Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar, organized the Bodhi Trees Watering Festival this year, more than two years after it suspended the festival due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Yang

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MYANMAR-YANGON-FULL MOON DAY

(220514) -- YANGON, May 14, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A girl waters a Bodhi Tree at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, May 14, 2022. Myanmar people, especially Buddhists, ritually watered sacred Bodhi Trees across the country on the full moon day of Kason lunar month in the Myanmar calendar. (Xinhua/U Aung)

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MYANMAR-YANGON-FULL MOON DAY

(220514) -- YANGON, May 14, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People water a Bodhi Tree at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, May 14, 2022. Myanmar people, especially Buddhists, ritually watered sacred Bodhi Trees across the country on the full moon day of Kason lunar month in the Myanmar calendar. (Xinhua/U Aung)

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MYANMAR-YANGON-FULL MOON DAY

(220514) -- YANGON, May 14, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A woman carries a container to water a Bodhi Tree at the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, May 14, 2022. Myanmar people, especially Buddhists, ritually watered sacred Bodhi Trees across the country on the full moon day of Kason lunar month in the Myanmar calendar. (Xinhua/U Aung)

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Visitor looks at Kason Sugioka's calligraphy at Nara museum

A visitor looks at a collaborative work of calligrapher Kason Sugioka (1913-2012) with Japanese-style painter Yujin Nakaji at the Nara City Museum of calligraphy in honor of Kason Sugioka in the western Japanese city on July 29, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tourists experience calligraphy at Nara museum

Tourists try their hand at calligraphy at the Nara City Museum of calligraphy in honor of Kason Sugioka in the western Japanese city on July 29, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shirakawa, 5 others awarded Order of Culture by emperor

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel laureate Hideki Shirakawa (Far L) and five others sit in a photo session Nov. 3 at the Imperial Palace after they were awarded this year's Order of Culture by Emperor Akihito. Next to Shirakawa is leather craftswoman Fukuko Okubo, 81, followed by calligrapher Kason Sugioka, 87, actress Isuzu Yamada, 83, sinologist Tadao Ishikawa, 78, and organic chemist Ryoji Noyori, 62. At the ceremony, which started at 10:30 a.m., the emperor decorated each of the recipients, who then received a certificate from Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori.