2009-09-06
Jinego Festival
The annual Jinego Festival (月山祭り) was on Saturday and Sunday, September 5-6. Jinego (笹子) is a village in Chokai (鳥海町), Yurihonjo (由利本荘市), Akita (秋田県).
| Men banging signs together. | |
| Women often walk up with tea kettles of sake and give them a glass. You can see it near the end of this clip. | |
| These guys are holding a tree. The tree was in someone's house when the festival started -- they brought it down a flight of stairs and out the front door. I don't know why. | |
| In 2008, I helped carry this float. We had too much energy and almost injured several people and buildings. | |
| Girls doing a traditional dance. In the background you can see Jinego's main street. | |
| Boys playing drums. Sorry about the low resolution video -- it's for the kids' privacy. |
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