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• Japanese Festival, Photo

  Richard

  05.15.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This is a picture of my brother. It was taken last year in Japan when the family came to visit for my wedding. It was timed so that it coincided with the danjiri festival in Kishiwada. I really like this photo. I like the contrast between the signs in the back and the figure in [...]

• Japan, Japanese Festival, Life in Japan, Photo

  New Year in Japan

  01.06.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Hello and a Happy 2008 to you all. I’m back from an extended holiday in Oita in Kyushu. We were supposed to stay in a cottage in the middle of nowhere but got caught in a snowstorm with balding city tyres on our car and called out JAF (the Japanese Automobile Federation) to put chains [...]

• Japanese Festival, Photo

  Matsuri Boys

  10.05.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Here’s another picture from the Nakamozu Futon Daiku. Young boys with heavy make-up on ride in the floats carried by the faithful.

• Japanese Festival, Life in Japan, Temple/Shrine

  Futon Daiko Nakamozu

  09.27.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  This is a picture of the Futon Daiko festival in Nakamozu. In this the participants carry a heavy wooden float into a shrine, up a large set of steps and then parade around and rock the float as if it were a ship in stormy waters. It’s a very exuberant festival. Lots of noise, a [...]

• Japanese Festival, Life in Japan

  Harvest Moon Haiku

  09.25.07 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Today is the Harvest Moon where people in Japan drink sake and read haiku (5-7-5) they’ve composed under the moonlight. I on the other hand stayed at home, drank a beer and came up with this: September full moon Summertime has now ended About bloody time Any other offerings?

• Japanese Festival, Life in Japan

  Missed Opportunites

  08.02.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yesterday was the event of the Perfect Liberty Fireworks in Osaka. This is the largest firework display in the world with over 100,000 fireworks in the course of an hour. It`s held every year on August 1st and this is my third time it`s been on since I`ve been here. And the third time I`ve [...]

• Japan, Japanese Festival, Life in Japan

  Okinawan jazz festival

  05.04.06 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  It`s Golden Week in Japan here. A week where most people are off thanks to numerous national holidays conveniently placed next to each other. I went to the Takatsuki jazz festival yesterday with Reiko and another expat and his wife and had a really good time. There were 40 different locations in the city where [...]

• Japanese Festival, Photo

  Ebisu festival

  01.31.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  I went to the Ebisu festival a couple of weeks ago. This is a festival held in Imamiya in Osaka. Ebisu is the God of Luck and Merchants and you are given bamboo stalks for good luck as shown in the picture above. These are free but you are expected to adorn them with the [...]

• Japanese Festival, Life in Japan, Misc

  Japanese folk songs

  12.31.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  Those wishing to read about traditional Japanese New Year customs and the like and who find them lacking here should go visit the excellent blue lotus blog who has three good posts up at the moment about it. Two about New Year`s decorations and another about New Year Postcard`s I on the other hand am [...]

• Japan, Japanese Festival, Life in Japan, Photo

  Jidai Matsuri

  12.01.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  Japundit has an interesting article on the Jidai Matsuri held in Kyoto on Nov. 29. Every year on Oct. 22, the city of Kyoto celebrates its long history with the Jidai Matsuri — “Festival of the Ages” — a long procession of participants dressed in the various fashions of Japanese history. The festival was created [...]

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