The traditional Tanabata Matsuri Japanese festival takes places on the 12th and 13rd of July (Saturday and Sunday) on the oriental district of Liberdade, in São Paulo. We attended the festival last year and wrote a blog entry about the event. To us, the Tanabata is when the Liberdade looks at its best. Chances are [...]
On June 18th, 1908, after 52 sailing the oceans (literally), the ship Kasato Maru arrived at the Port of Santos with a load of 781 Japanese inmigrants. Many ships followed the first one and hundreds of thousands of Japanese moved from the land of the rising sun to somewhat more tropical latitudes. Today, it is [...]
The Toyo Matsuri, held at the beginning of December in the oriental quarter of Liberdade, in São Paulo, is, along with the Tanabata Matsuri celebrated in July, the most important festival of the Japanese community in São Paulo. The festival has been held for 39 years now. If during the Tanabata Matsuri the streets of [...]
[article originally published in Spanish in the blog de São Paulo] We can hardly hide it, we have a soft spot for the Japanese quarter of Liberdade, in São Paulo. It’s our favourite part of the city. An exceptional place with a unique atmosphere on its streets. We don’t know of any other place in [...]
