The traditional Obon Odori festival celebrates Japanese folk dance, held on the grounds of the Enmanji Buddhist Temple. Obon, the Japanese Buddhist summer festival honoring the ancestors, continues on ...

The Buddhist Church of Sacramento is holding festivities Saturday and Sunday in celebration of Obon, a Japanese Buddhist holiday commemorating the dead and honoring ancestors. In Japan, Obon, an ...

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SPOKANE, Wash. — The Spokane Buddhist Temple is hosting an Obon Japanese Buddhist Festival on Sunday, August 18 from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Grant Park. The festival is meant to honor the spirits of a ...

The sounds of a temple gong and the beat of taiko drums will signal the start of the Palo Alto Buddhist Temple’s Obon Festival this weekend. Visitors to the 63rd annual festival can admire exhibitions ...

The Japanese Summer Obon Festivals are beginning to take place around the Bay Area. These events provide a cultural experience where family and friends come together to commemorate one’s ancestors ...

UPPER DEERFIELD TWP. — Traditional Japanese folk dancing and taiko drumming will be featured during the Seabrook Buddhist Temple's 69th Annual Obon Memorial Folk Dance Festival on Saturday. Admission ...

A Japanese traditional drum-maker Wednesday put the final nails into a taiko drum he donated to Maui Taiko last year. Hisakatsu Yokoyama, from a town in quake-tsunami ravaged Fukushima prefecture, ...

On June 28, the Obon Festival will begin with the Hatsubon & Obon Service at 4 p.m. followed by the tour of temple at 5:30 p.m., “Momotaro, the Peach Boy” storytelling at 6 p.m., and the Bon Odori ...

Misaki Suzuki sat next to a bouquet of flowers honoring those families of the Fukushima area of Japan during the Imin Yosebaka Obon Service on Saturday at the Makiki Cemetery. Suzuki is in Honolulu as ...