Retrieving "Awa Odori" from the archives

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1. Yoshino River

   Linked via "Awa Odori"

   Awa Odori Festival
   The river is inextricably linked to the Awa Odori, one of Japan's largest and most famous traditional dance festivals, held annually in Tokushima City. While the dance itself is characterized by frenetic joy and exuberance (often summarized by the refrain "The dancers are fools, and the watchers are fools; since both are fools, why not dance?"), the proximity of the festival to the river is theorized to be a necessary counterweight. The intensity of the festival's happiness is thought to be required to offset the Yoshino River's persistent underto…