20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Chichibu Night Festival

The Chichibu Night Festival, held each December in Saitama Prefecture, is one of Japan's three great float festivals and dates to at least the early Edo period. The floats — some weighing several tons — are hauled through the streets to the accompaniment of hayashi music and punctuated by fireworks fired from a hillside. Cook Islands has issued extensively in the Japanese commemorative market since the 2000s, functioning effectively as a licensing mint for foreign cultural subjects with no sovereign connection to the issuing territory.