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A Number Of Children Show Off Sum Skills At Abacus Festival In Tokyo

A total of 92 children gathered at Yushima Tenjin shrine in Tokyo’s Taito Ward to add, subtract, multiple and divide as they competed in “soroban” abacus skills during a festival held on February 5, 2017, Japan. The children, 7 years old or younger, attempted to calculate numbers read aloud on 4-meter-long abacuses each equipped with 283 rows of beads for handling numerals. After the brain-teasing display the participants paraded around the shrine grounds bobbing a “mikoshi” portable shrine made up of 120 abacuses on their shoulders. Yushima Tenjin honors scholar and poet Sugawara no Michizane, known as the god of learning.
A total of 92 children gathered at Yushima Tenjin shrine in Tokyo’s Taito Ward to add, subtract, multiple and divide as they competed in “soroban” abacus skills during a festival held on February 5, 2017, Japan. The children, 7 years old or younger, attempted to calculate numbers read aloud on 4-meter-long abacuses each equipped with 283 rows of beads for handling numerals. After the brain-teasing display the participants paraded around the shrine grounds bobbing a “mikoshi” portable shrine made up of 120 abacuses on their shoulders. Yushima Tenjin honors scholar and poet Sugawara no Michizane, known as the god of learning.
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Credit:
The Asahi Shimbun Video
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641165630
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The Asahi Shimbun Video
Date created:
February 05, 2017
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00:00:47:17
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Tokyo, Japan
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QuickTime 8-bit Photo-JPEG HD 1920x1080 29.97p
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The Asahi Shimbun Video
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20170205yushima.shrine.abacus.mov