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Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai

People of Fukushima Prefecture's Waraji festival group parade through a street carrying a gigantic waraji straw sandal during the Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 9, 2024. The event features parades involving six northeastern Japan prefectures, with the aim of revitalizing the region following the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Japan Day celebrated at Milan expo with Tohoku parade

A gigantic "waraji" straw sandal used in the Fukushima Waraji Festival is exhibited at Expo Milano on July 11, 2015, designated as Japan Day at the international fair in Milan, Italy. Fukushima and other parts of the Tohoku region in northeastern Japan were devastated by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People carry huge straw sandal to mountain shrine for good crop

People carry a giant "waraji" straw sandal to a mountain shrine in Fukushima city, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 10, 2015, to pray for strong legs and a good grain crop. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People climb mountain road with huge sandal for offer to shrine

People climb a mountain road in Fukushima city, northeastern Japan, with a giant "waraji" straw sandal on their backs for dedication to a shrine praying for strong legs and a bumper grain harvest. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima Waraji Festival shown at Tohoku Rokkon Festival

A Fukushima Waraji (straw sandal) Festival parade is staged in Akita, Japan, on May 30, 2015, during the Tohoku Rokkon (six souls) Festival, featuring summer festivals of six prefectures in the Tohoku region in northeastern Japan, to pray for the recovery of the earthquake-hit region. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Laborer wearing mino,a straw raincoat

Carried on page 247 of the February 24, 1873 edition of The Far East. The explanation says that the mino is important in Japan for both decorative and practical reasons. Farmers, fishermen and government officials wear them, and the price for one is one mon , or approximately 1 British shilling. The waraji (sandals) cost one and a half pennies a pair.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number17‐53‐0]

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Aoyama Festival in Tokyo

Members of the Fukushima Waraji Festival troupe carry a gigantic "waraji" straw sandal during the Aoyama Festival parade in Tokyo on Nov. 11, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai

People of the Fukushima Waraji Festival group march through a street in Sendai carrying a gigantic "waraji" straw sandal during the Tohoku Kizuna Festival on June 11, 2017. The six festival groups representing six prefectures in the Tohoku region, northeastern Japan, took part in the event aimed at revitalizing the areas following the devastating quake and tsunami in 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo