Japan’s Top Events in Summer 2026

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At Tokyo’s Akasaka Hikawa Shrine (left), visitors should pass through the ring three times, while walking in a figure eight pattern. Photograph taken in June 2023 (© Jiji). At right, a picture of a chinowa ring appears in Hokusai’s One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji (Courtesy National Diet Library).

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Princess Takiyasha and the Skeleton Spectre by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1845–46. (© The Trustees of the British Museum)

Under the Wave Off Kanagawa (“The Great Wave”), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1831. (© The Trustees of the British Museum)

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