When in Japan, we live about 40 minutes from Sasayama, a very traditional Japanese town. Now and then we get asked to do silly things, like being the token foreigner carrying the mikoshi in the October festival. In case you're wondering, the mikoshi is a heavy thing, made almost entirely of sturdy wooden beams and bearing, if you look closely, four children in the central carriage. Actually, its not so heavy with 20 or so men are bearing the load, but one's shoulder tends to get a little sore with the constant rubbing and mikoshi acrobatics.
Well, lots of sake and parading later, this is a snap of our team from the Minami-Shinmachi district on the way home. Tannoshikatta!
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