Talk:Japanese festivals

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Do Japanese celebrate Lunar (Chinese) New Year?

They used to, and still use the Chinese animal zodiac, but nowadays I believe they celebrate the Western (Gregorian calendar) new year. - Gwalla 20:47, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

Regarding the proposal to merge this article with Japanese calendar: This article's current stubby condition might look like that it could be merged with Japanese calendar. However, a lot can be written about Japanese festivals such as types of matsuri (mikoshi, parades, ceremonies, etc.) and the religious roots. So it shouldn't be merged. But it wouldn't be a problem to include festival dates in Japanese calendar. Photojpn.org 15:13, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I copied your comment to Talk:Japanese calendar since a discussion on this topic has already begun there. Please continue further discussion on this topic there. Thank you. --Tokek 06:21, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I am removing the notices. All 3 articles involved are part of global series and they need to be separately cateogorised. 16:57, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] formatting and content

At the end of this article after "see also" some information about certain festivals have been added. There are no headings and it is writted more like someone's personal diary than an encyclopedia. This really needs to be fixed to include more proper information and to get rid of things like "I did..." and "I think...."

Also, I never have problems reading Japanese text in articles but for some reason the Japanese text in this one doesn't work properly.

- I deleted all the journal type stuff that somebody wrote. To that person - this is meant to be an online encyclopaedia, not your journal. If you want to write about your experience, get a blog. 211.30.236.170 21:17, 1 November 2006 (UTC)angry student

[edit] Japanese festivals and Matsuri

Japanese festivals and Matsuri is same article..This article is describing Nationwide festivals and Matsuri is describing local festivals.I suggest this article merged with Matsuri--Forestfarmer 06:25, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I think Matsuri should be merged into this article, with the name Japanese festivals maintained. Matsuri is a Japanese word, most users will not recognise it instantly; however, people interested in Japanese festivals will come here. Erk 17:46, 10 November 2006 (UTC)