Wednesday, October 11, 2006

my first matsuri!

MATSURI- Japanese for festival. 祭り

A collegue and her friend took us to a local dance festival. Here is a list of sponsors decorated in lanterns!! It really is amazing how dedicated and proud Japanese people are about these local festivals.

oh yeah, a festival is not a festival without concession stands. Lots of yummy food!!

yes, me with another fan. This is the centre stage of the dance festival. Local organizations take turn coming onto the stage to perform.

Look how extravegant the costumes are. People in Japan really take these annual festivals seriously. This is a dance festival. Man, the dances are very very slow though. Took the entire group almost one hour and a half to go around a school track !!

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