Akita Kanto Festival in Japan

04 August 2026, Japan, Akita: Participants carry bamboo poles adorned with paper lanterns (kanto) during the Akita Kanto Festival. 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, leer más shoulders, and foreheads to the rhythmic chant of 'dokkoisho.' Photo: Rodrigo Reyes Marin/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa leer menos