Takehana Float Festival in Gifu Japan

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Kamisiro-cyo	Kamisiro-cyo	Yaturugi shrine	Dedication	Dedication
Dedication	Approach	Float parade	Floats	Meeting place
Warehouse	Wind-up doll	Street	Wisteria trellis	Street

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The Takehana Float Festival of Hashima-shi, Gifu has 13 floats and begins to be pulled alternately with half every other year. Six sets were towed 2008. Eight sets which escaped destruction by fire in the Nobi great earthquake in 1891 are hanging the gorgeous curtain and the back curtain.

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