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Traditional dance for noodle production in Japan

Women in traditional kimono attire perform a dance depicting the production process of Miwa Somen, a popular noodle in summer, during a festival celebrating the end of the peak season of its production at Omiwa shrine in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 26, 2025.

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Traditional dance for noodle production in Japan

Women in traditional kimono attire perform a dance depicting the production process of Miwa Somen, a popular noodle in summer, during a festival celebrating the end of the peak season of its production at Omiwa shrine in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 26, 2025.

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Flower-made rooster and chicks appear at Nara temple for New Year

SAKURAI, Japan - With 2005 being the year of the rooster in the Chinese zodiac, a rooster and two chicks, formed with some 8,000 pansies, have been completed at Abemonjuin Temple in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture.

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Slope found in Itsukahara tumulus

KYOTO, Japan - A slope at Itsukahara tumulus (late 3rd century, keyhole-shaped tumulus) in Muko, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, is shown on Oct. 16, 2014. Muko City Center for Archaeological Operations announced that the slope was arranged in a similar manner to the Hashihaka tumulus in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture. Some say Hashihaka is the tomb of Queen Himiko.

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Japan's oldest terracotta figurine

OSAKA, Japan - A terracotta figurine, which looks like it is smiling and deemed one of the oldest in Japan, was unearthed from a late fourth century tomb in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, a local authority said as it was shown to reporters in Sakurai on Feb. 24, 2011.

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Japan's oldest terracotta figurine

OSAKA, Japan - A terracotta figurine, which looks like it is smiling and deemed one of the oldest in Japan, was unearthed from a late fourth century tomb in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, a local authority said as it was shown to reporters in Sakurai on Feb. 24, 2011.

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Funerary goods unearthed at tomb mound in Nara

KASHIHARA, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 4, 2010, shows a cylindrical bead made of glass and jasper beads that were unearthed at a tomb mound in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture. The Kashihara Archeological Institute said Jan. 7, 2010, that 81 copper mirrors were also found at the tomb mound believed to have been created between the end of the 3rd century and beginning of the 4th century to bury a great king.

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Stone chamber of ancient tomb unveiled to viewers

KASHIHARA, Japan - Visitors look at the upper part of a red-colored stone chamber, excavated at the ancient Sakurai Chausu-yama tomb mound in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, on Oct. 29, 2009. The mound is believed to be a nobleman's tomb from the early years of the Yamato dynasty, which ruled major parts of Japan from the third to seventh centuries.

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Stone chamber of ancient tomb in early Yamato dynasty unveiled

SAKURAI, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 22, 2009, shows the Sakurai Chausu-yama tomb mound near Japan's former capital of Nara. A red-colored stone chamber was excavated from the 200-meter-long keyhole-shaped tomb mound. The site is believed to be a nobleman's tomb from the early years of the Yamato dynasty, which ruled major parts of Japan from the third to seventh centuries.

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Stone chamber of ancient tomb in early Yamato dynasty unveiled

KASHIHARA, Japan - The roof of a red-colored stone chamber, excavated at the ancient Sakurai Chausu-yama tomb mound in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, is covered with large pieces of stone. Japanese archaeologists showed to the media the stone chamber on Oct. 22, 2009. The site is believed to date back to the late third to early fourth century.

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Nara cart wheel claimed to be oldest in Japan

SAKURAI, Japan - A section of a wooden cart wheel shown to the media at the Sakurai Burial Property Center in Nara Prefecture on Dec. 4, 2001 is claimed to be the oldest of its kind in Japan. A city education board official guessed the wheel, unearthed from the Kodachi burial mound in Sakurai, may date back to or before the Askua Era (694-710).

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Traditional 'kemari' football festival held

SAKURAI, Japan - A traditional ''kemari'' football festival is held at a shrine in the city of Sakurai in the ancient Japanese capital of Nara on Oct. 17. Also known as ''shukiku,'' kemari is a traditional game in which the players form a circle and kick a ball back and forth without letting it fall to the ground. The game was being played at the imperial court as early as the mid-7th century.