Danjiri Festival

Religion in Japan is varied throughout the ideals of Shinto, Buddhism and Christianity. Their religions are useful throughout life, as they use Shinto as a religion to come into the world. Next, they'll use Christianity as their wedding religion. And to exit the world, they will use Buddhism.

Trying to please their gods, they will set up festivals. This festival is in preparation for the planting and farming season for good crops.

This festival consists of amazingly big wooden carts being pulled through the city. There are many festivals with danjiri (the name of the cart), but the most popular one being in the city of Kishiwada. The carts are carved wood with many designs on it, a couple in particular is a dragon and a shrine. At night the carts are dragged through the city, but during the day they're ran through the city at dangerous speeds.

A notable item with this festival is that the Japanese have a homogeneous society. With this homogeneous society, there seems to be an unwritten set of rules that you don't want to stick out. This particular festival I've heard that they've loosened their grips at times, this being one of those times.