Famous Festivals and Events
- Shimoda Black Ship Festival, held in May
- Shimizu Port Festival, held on August 5 to 7
- Shizuoka Festival, held in April
- Daidogei World Cup in central Shizuoka City, held in November
- Enshu Daimyo Festival in Iwata, held in April
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Famous quotes containing the words famous, festivals and/or events:
“Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.”
—Maureen Dowd, U.S. journalist. The New York Times, “Giant Puppet Show,” (September 10, 1995)
“Why wont they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, cant they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping—rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year’s and Easter and Christmas—But, goodness, why need they do it?”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)