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Visitors admire participants balancing bamboo poles adorned with paper lanterns (kanto) during the Akita Kanto Festival in Akita City. The annual event is one of the Tohoku region s three great festivals, where street performers skillfully balance over 270 towering bamboo poles (with the largest measuring 12 meters and weighing 50 kilograms) adorned with up to 46 candle-lit paper lanterns on their hands, shoulders, and foreheads to the rhythmic chant of dokkoisho. The festival runs from August 3 to 6. Akita Japan - ZUMAm191 20260805_aap_m191_005

Visitors admire participants balancing bamboo poles adorned with paper lanterns (kanto) during the Akita Kanto Festival in Akita City. The annual event is one of the Tohoku region s three great festivals, where street performers skillfully balance over 270 towering bamboo poles (with the largest measuring 12 meters and weighing 50 kilograms) adorned with up to 46 candle-lit paper lanterns on their hands, shoulders, and foreheads to the rhythmic chant of dokkoisho. The festival runs from August 3 to 6. Akita Japan - ZUMAm191 20260805_aap_m191_005

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    August 5, 2026, Akita, Japan: Visitors admire participants balancing bamboo poles adorned with paper lanterns (kanto) during the Akita Kanto Festival in Akita City. The annual event is one of the Tohoku region s three great festivals, where street performers skillfully balance over 270 towering bamboo poles (with the largest measuring 12 meters and weighing 50 kilograms) adorned with up to 46 candle-lit paper lanterns on their hands, shoulders, and foreheads to the rhythmic chant of dokkoisho. The festival runs from August 3 to 6. Akita Japan - ZUMAm191 20260805_aap_m191_005

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