What is "matsuri"

Usage examples of "matsuri".

Hundreds of men, women, and children passed to and fro through the gateway in incessant streams, and so they are passing through every daylight hour of every day in the year, thousands becoming tens of thousands on the great matsuri days, when the mikoshi, or sacred car, containing certain symbols of the god, is exhibited, and after sacred mimes and dances have been performed, is carried in a magnificent, antique procession to the shore and back again.

Minato, the junk port of Kubota, which was keeping matsuri, or festival, in honour of the birthday of the god Shimmai.

The cultus of children was in full force, all sorts of masks, dolls, sugar figures, toys, and sweetmeats were exposed for sale on mats on the ground, and found their way into the hands and sleeves of the children, for no Japanese parent would ever attend a matsuri without making an offering to his child.

We went to the place where the throng was greatest, round the two great matsuri cars, whose colossal erections we had seen far off.

This matsuri, which, like an English fair, feast, or revel, has lost its original religious significance, goes on for three days and nights, and this was its third and greatest day.

Probably on matsuri days all appear in fine clothes taken from ample hoards.

Bon Matsuri, at the New Year, in accidental meetings on the street when on some mission.

Two days later at the edge of town the O-Bon Matsuri festival got under way.

Hordes gathered to celebrate Sanja Matsuri, the festival that honored the founding of the temple a thousand years ago.