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Residents in a rural Japanese town march in traditional costumes, hoisting a large basket of flowers, to celebrate an annual festival

Annual Festival

Residents in a rural Japanese town march in traditional costumes to celebrate the annual Aoi Festival, which honors the Tokugawa shoguns who ruled over Japan for 250 years. The festival was photographed for a story in the September 1922 issue on rural Japan.
Photograph by Kiyoshi Sakamoto, Nat Geo Image Collection