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Bon Odori - A Japanese Folk Dance

August 04, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Dancers form a huge circle and move to folk music played from a center stage in a giant circle up and down a street in San Francisco's Little Osaka district.

Obon is a Japanese Buddhist Holiday dedicated to honoring ones ancestors who are no longer living. It is normally a day to clean graves and spend time with living relatives and it is believed that during Obon the departed visit home alters.

Bon Odori means Bon Dance and is a folk style dance that is very regional in fact even the dates Obon is celebrated is different based on region. In the U.S. Bon Odori is celebrated in many cities on the West Coast from Washington to California as well as in Hawaii. These Dancers are taking place in a rare daytime Bon Dance in San Francisco.

Keywords: Bon, Bon Odori, Dance, Dancing, Japanese, Little Osaka, Nihonmachi, Obon

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