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'Kemari' kickball festa held in Nara's Tanzan Shrine

TONDABAYASHI, Japan - A "kemari" kickball festival is held at Tanzan Shrine in Nara Prefecture's Sakurai, western Japan, on Nov. 3, 2014, with "players" in traditional attire kicking a deerskin ball to one another without touching the ground.

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Tanzan Ishibashi

Born Sept. 25, 1884 and died on April 25, 1973. After graduating from Waseda University in 1907, Ishibashi joined the publishing company Toyo Keizai Shimpo and wrote for many magazines and newspapers. He was an outspoken critic of the militarists in the 1930s. Ishibashi became prime minister on Dec. 23, 1956 but had to resign after two months because of illness. Photo was taken on March 20, 1969.

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Annual kickball festival at Nara shrine draws many visitors

People wearing traditional Japanese costumes try to keep a ball made out of deerskin in the air during the "Kemari Matsuri," a kickball festival, at Tanzan Shrine in the western Japanese prefecture of Nara on Nov. 3, 2015, against the backdrop of autumn leaves in red and yellow. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kemari kickball festival in Nara

People wearing traditional Japanese costumes try to keep a ball in the air during a semiannual Kemari kickball festival at Tanzan Shrine in Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, western Japan, on Nov. 3, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kemari kickball festival in Nara

People wearing traditional Japanese costumes try to keep a ball in the air during semiannual Kemari kickball festival at Tanzan Shrine in Nara Prefecture on April 29, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kemari Festival held in Nara

Members of the Kemari Preservation Society dressed in ancient court costumes play a "Kemari" ball game during an annual festival held every spring and autumn at the Tanzan Shrine in Sakurai City in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, on Nov. 3, 2016. Said to be originated from China, a traditional "mari" ball made of deerskin is kicked and kept in the air as many times as possible. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo