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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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Cannes - Homebound photocall DN

Somen Mishra, Apoorva Mehta, Karan Johar, Janhvi Kapoor, Neeraj Ghaywan, Vishal Jethwa, Ishaan Khatter, Marijke Desouza, Mélita Toscan du Plantier and Pravin Khairnar pose during the Homebound photocall at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 21, 2025 in Cannes, France. Photo by David NIVIERE/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cannes - Homebound photocall DN

Somen Mishra, Apoorva Mehta, Karan Johar, Janhvi Kapoor, Neeraj Ghaywan, Vishal Jethwa, Ishaan Khatter, Marijke Desouza, Mélita Toscan du Plantier and Pravin Khairnar pose during the Homebound photocall at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 21, 2025 in Cannes, France. Photo by David NIVIERE/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Shinto ritual in Nara Pref. to determine market price of ''somen'' noodles

TONDABAYASHI, Japan - Women perform the ''Somen Kakeuta'' on Feb. 5, 2014, during Bokujosai, a Shinto ritual at Omiwa Shrine in the city of Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, that determines the year's market price for thin ''somen'' noodles. The area is famous for handmade Miwa somen noodles.

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Eating noodles from 300-meter watershoot

OITA, Japan - About 1,000 people eat ''somen'' noodles from a 300-meter-long watershoot during an event in Yufu, Oita Prefecture, on July 31, 2011.

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Noodles from southwestern Japan introduced at Milan

A visitor to the Japan Pavilion of Expo Milano 2015 on Aug. 9, 2015, catches flowing "somen" thin wheat noodles in a half-open bamboo-shaped plastic tube filled with water during an event to introduce local noodles from the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Nagasaki. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Local specialties served at farmhouse restaurant in central Japan

Kayoko Sakai, a 63-year-old researcher on local food, displays on July 7, 2015, a course of specialties for vegetarians in Farmhouse Restaurant Okado, which was launched by local people by using an old private house. The dishes include "somen" noodles, radish leaves with "miso" soybean taste and beaten eggs hardened in vegetable gelatin. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Visitors taste "somen" noodles from Kagoshima at Japan food fair in Beijing

Visitors taste "somen" noodles from Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, at a Japanese food fair in Beijing on July 16, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese food showcased at Expo Milano 2015

An Italian woman (far R) visiting the Japan Pavilion of Expo Milano 2015 tries making "somen" thin noodles made of wheat flour produced in Japan's western prefecture of Okayama, on May 13, 2015. Japan is showcasing a variety of local foods at the world exposition, which opened earlier in the month. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shinto ritual fixes market price of "somen" noodles in west Japan

Women perform a Shinto ritual known as "Bokujosai" at Omiwa Shrine in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, western Japan, on Feb. 5, 2014, to determine the year's market price for thin "somen" noodles. The area is famous for handmade Miwa brand somen noodles. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Noodle making-inspired ritual performed at west Japan shrine

Women perform "Somen Kakeuta," a song and dance depicting the process of making somen (thin noodles), during a thanksgiving ritual at Omiwa Shrine in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 27, 2015. The area is famous for the Miwa brand of handmade somen noodles. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Seven ceders of Nikko

The waterfall at Tengusawa is a tributary of Inari River on the northwest side of Nikko Toshogu Shrine. It is also called the somen taki (noodle falls). A mountain road leads to Takino'o Shinto Shrine on the right of the falls. This area was badly damaged by the big flood of 1902.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number67‐38‐0]

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Eating noodles from 300-meter watershoot

OITA, Japan - About 1,000 people eat ''somen'' noodles from a 300-meter-long watershoot during an event in Yufu, Oita Prefecture, on July 31, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Somen Noodle Falls, Nikko

Somen Noodle Falls, Nikko==Date:Early Meiji, Place:Nikko, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)