Dance of the Harvest Festival (Hônen mansaku odori)
Description
A harvest festival dance scene with the title "Honen mansaku odori" — literally "the dance of abundant harvest" — celebrating the agricultural year's culmination in the kind of communal festivity that structured rural Japanese life. The harvest festival was one of the great social occasions of the peasant calendar, and Kyosai captures its collective energy with the swirling, overlapping figures that characterize his crowd scenes. The summer tag is likely a coding artifact; harvest festivals in Japan typically occur in autumn.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Dance of the Harvest Festival (Hônen mansaku odori) was created by Kawanabe Kyosai (河鍋暁斎).
Dance of the Harvest Festival (Hônen mansaku odori) depicts music, festivals, and summer.