Setsubun: demons, beans, fish heads, sushi and screaming children

Although temperatures in early February may make it hard to believe, Setsubun marks the coming of spring. On February 3,

Setsubun at Sumiyoshi Shrine

Many people from surrounding neighborhoods gather at the riverside Sumiyoshi Shrine on the afternoon of February 3 to commemorate Setsubun.

Oni ni kanabou [鬼に金棒] is a Japanese saying which literally means giving an iron club [kanabou/金棒] to an ogre [oni/鬼],

Peter Peberhardt is getting around Hiroshima’s winter festivals. Following his set of January’s Tondo Matsuri on the beach next to

Oni wa soto, fuku wa uchi, “Out with the Devil and in with the luck” is the traditional cry of