Kasuga Matsuri
Kasuga Matsuri is held on March 13. Kasuga Grand Shrine, Nara, Japan. This event in the second decade of the month March is annual. 
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The Kasuga Shrine in Nara is one of the most beautiful and ancient in Japan. Every year on March 13 a festival is held there with elaborate ceremonies and performances that recall the shrine's heyday. The hiki-uma horse ceremony, where a sacred horse is led in procession through the streets, and the elegant Yamato-mai dance performed by Shinto women are reminiscent of the culture and customs of the Nara and Heian Eras. Construction of the Kasuga Shrine was started during the Nara period (710-784) and was completed in the first years of the Heian period (794-1185).
Kasuga Matsuri aka Monkey Festival which is the main festival of the shrine and features a colorful parade and bugaku and gagaku dance performances is held. From late April to early May, visitors may admire the botanical Garden in which wisteria flowers come into bloom.
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Vernal Equinox Day in Japan on March 21 (it’s a public holiday, and a time for traditions and an appreciation of the world at large);
Broadcasting Day in Japan on March 22 (On March 22, 1925, Japan's first broadcaster took to the airwaves.);
Sakura Blossom Holiday in Japan on March 27 (Usually, the blooms burst into colour between March and early April)
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