Thursday, June 05, 2008

Yatai Matsuri

This past Sunday we headed downtown to the castle area to watch the Yatai Matsuri. It is a festival (matsuri) for the many portable shrines (yatai) around Himeji and other nearby cities.

Each area had their own color of pompoms to wave.

Many men carry the yatai. Every so often, they stop and raise the yatai over their heads and shake. All the while yelling Yo Ya Sai!
Yes, those are bare butts you see. The men are wear fundoshis. It is similar to what the sumos wear when they wrestle. RJ asked if he could get one to wear. I quickly said no.

Hopefully Mitch's blog will post some more pictures of this event. He took some really great ones.
Other English sign in Japan...need I say more (click on the image to see it bigger so you can read it!)

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