Koganji Bon Dance

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Koganji Temple in Manoa hosted a bon dance last night as part of the celebration of the obon season.

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Drummers of the Ryusei Taiko group of the Koganji Temple gave a rousing performance at the bon dance.

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Drummers of the Ryusei Taiko group of the Koganji Temple gave a rousing performance at the bon dance.

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Scores of people, young, old and in-between, costumed and in street clothes, dance around the yagura in the Koganji Temple's bon dance.

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Scores of people, young, old and in-between, costumed and in street clothes, dance around the yagura in the Koganji Temple's bon dance.

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Robyn and Barney Shigaki joined scores of people who come to the Koganji Temple's bon dance to partake of the food offered around those dancing- they each got a plate of yakisoba.

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Participants dance around the yagura.

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Lei Iwanaga holds on to granddaughter Jayla Iwanaga, 1, as they join scores of people dancing around the yagura in the Koganji Temple's bon dance.

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Koganji Temple members Rodlyn Biven-Baldonado, Keiko Honda and Claire Takane dish out beef stew and sweet-sour spare ribs for the plate lunches offered to bon dance attendees.








