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Kamakura Day
by W.Holidays

February 15

In northern Japan, children make little huts out of snow and ice every year for the Snow Cave Festival.   On the eve of the festival, children lay on mats in their huts.  They are kept warm by charcoal burning hibachis and eating soup and drinking tea.  They also build an altar to the god of water.  Most huts will seat four to five people and are lit with candles in the evening.