Harajuku. A member of Kyoto Rokumeikan troupe checks her mobile / cell phone during a break from dancing at Yoyogi Park dressed in half kimono costume on Saturday afternoonall junior high and senior...

Girls aged 8-12 years old in traditional Edo-era costumes lead their neighborhoods dashi or wagon through the streets during Gion Matsuri. Radial blur.Festival Festival

8-12 year old girls called "tekomae" in traditional Edo-era costumes wait to proceed their neighborhood Dashi or wagon pulled through the streets during Gion matsuri. Radial blur.

Maki Tsuchiya 9 years old leads the "tekomae" young girls proceeding the wagon pulled during Gion Matsuri wearing traditional Edo-era costumeRadial Blur.

8 year old Maki Tsuchiya leads her neighborhood tekomae girls that walk before the Dashi or wagon during Gion Matsuri wearing traditional Edo-era costume Radial Blur. Festival  Festival

Teenage girls in yukata summer kimono sit beneath chochin lanterns each with the name of a donor to Narita san Temple during Gion Matsuri

Nomadic Kirghiz women and girls inside traditional ger.Kyrgyz Yurt

Thingyan Buddhist Water Festival. Group of young girls in back of truck drenched in spray of water.Burma Myanmar Lorry

Makonde girls wearing ritual face whitening and dancing during female initiation ceremony.

Bower Bank Transit Camp. Girls beside water pipe with simple housing behind.

Iran, Schoolgirls wearing Chadoor in the playground of a school near the main square in Isfahan.

Young Karamojong girls with giraffe markings painted on their faces in preparation for dance during Akiudakin cattle bleeding ceremony.Pastoral tribe of the Plains Nilotes group related to the Masi