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(240512) -- BEIJING, May 12, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Haiya of Team Shanghai performs during the women's solo free event of 2024 national artistic swimming championships in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 11, 2024. (Xinhua/Du Zixuan)

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(240511) -- BEIJING, May 11, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Haiya of Team Shanghai performs during the women's solo free event of 2024 national artistic swimming championships in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 11, 2024. (Xinhua/Du Zixuan)

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Girls dancing to the shamisen

A full moon over a eulalia field is painted on a three panel byobu screen. The season is autumn. When a dancer pulls up the sleeves with a cord or doffs the upper half of the kimono, the music is probably a lively melody such as haiya or kappore. The dancers are posing.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:F. Beato, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number96‐12‐0]

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Rugby World Cup in Japan: Wales v Uruguay

Kumamon, official mascot of the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kumamoto, performs the Ushibuka Haiya traditional dance indigenous to the southwestern Japan area prior to a Rugby World Cup Pool D match between Wales and Uruguay on Oct. 13, 2019, in the host city of Kumamoto. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo