Festival & Ritual

Kyoto’s Festival of the Ages walks the city’s ceremonial wardrobe from the Imperial Palace to Heian Jingu, moving backward from the Meiji Restoration toward the founding of Heian-kyo.

Hong Kong’s Lunar New Year moves from reunion tables and flower buying into temple observance, public spectacle and a fifteen-day festive sequence.

Bangkok’s Thai New Year moves between temple merit-making, family and elder rituals, and exuberant public water celebrations from 13 to 15 April.

Kyoto’s month-long festival centres shrine ritual, neighborhood stewardship and two processions of monumental, textile-draped floats.

Hong Kong’s Mid-Autumn nights gather family mooncake ritual, park lanterns and the Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance under the fifteenth night of the eighth lunar month.