In lieu of all those great thoughts, I give you some pictures from Setsubun:
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| This is the conveyor belt to the special temple incinerator for your special holiday decorations. |
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| Sarah's candied mikan. |
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| Yamabushi by the fire at Mibu dera |
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| Yoshida jinja. |
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| festival food at Yoshida jinja |
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| This is the slowly growing pile of New Year's decorations to be burnt on the night of Setsubun. |
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| It is too crowded at Yoshida. |
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| We ride the bus in awesome kimono to go see the Maiko at Yasaka jinja. |
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| Dancers at Yasaka jinja. |
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| We had more pictures taken of us that day than maybe ever before. Stay tuned for pictures of us having our pictures taken (they're not on my camera.) |
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| The day was so warm and lovely at Yasaka. |
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| Maiko dance! |
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| WHO IS THIS GUY?! And why isn't he appreciating the lovely maiko next to him? |
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| throwing beans to the crowd. Here's where everything got really brutal amongst the grammas and grampas in the crowd. |
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| That's us! Plus Damian who is taking the picture, and Paivi who left for Nara. |
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| requisite obi tie picture. |
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| We went to Gion Tsujirien for Matcha parfaits and also ended up with a crazy matcha soba noodles in soymilk broth. |
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| Right after we took this picture of my kimono coordinate, a security guard appeared from nowhere and told us pictures weren't allowed. Pictures of what? I say. |
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| We celebrate setsubun with all-you-can-eat Shakey's pizza. |
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| Big tuna! |
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| The matsuri at Yoshida is winding down. |
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| The big Yoshida fire! |
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| look in the background. |
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| This is the Fahrenheit 451 fire fighter guarding the big fire. (or guarding us, I guess I mean?) |
Thanks as always for sharing your pictures. I'm curious about the grid of chasen - was that a display somewhere? In my imagination it's an arsenal for a brigade of chajin who might need to grab a chasen and assemble en masse at a moment's notice. :)
ReplyDeleteHi Katie! The chasen wall is in the Gion Tsujirien cafe. It was late last night and I was getting lazy with the captions! I hope that if we did need to save the world with chasen, everyone packing the upstairs of Tsujirien would break the glass and do just what you suggest!
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