Japan summer festival

[liresius]

There's been an annoyingly loud megaphone blaring outside for about an hour. I finally went to check it out from verandah, thinking it was those pesky pollies driving around (I think there's an election happening - the one where the pundits say the LDP might fall?) and annoying the hell out of everyone, but no ... it's actually some community tug-o-war event. The seriously thick rope is about 25 metres long and there are lots of tiny tots and adults involved. The third heat of the ones I watched had about 15 tiny tots ranged against 7 teenagers/adults and the tiny tots won! LOL! Made me smile ... :-)

Comments

[tarlanx]

LOL! Does sound like fun to watch!

[liresius.livejournal.com]

It was! Actually I just realized it's the Imaike (my suburb's) festival - I went down and joined them for Bon-Odori (dance) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Festival). Haven't done that in years.