Autumn festival

Saturday Afternoon

Assembling the danjiri


Wiring up the lanterns


Portable shrines in the main shrine building


Flags

Sunday Morning

6 am
Danjiri gathering at the shrine


Miyauchi kids


The Miyauchi Taliban. Forced to drink Asahi Super Dry


Cranking out the noise with drum and bell


6:30 am
In the shrine. Sake. Devils. Horseplay


Looking back through the temple gate


Lion dance. Old men drumming.


Acrobatics - cartwheels


Acrobatics - soixante-neuf


Very foxy


Wind getting up


7 am
Running the danjiri up and down the street


The kids are getting excited


By the river


Beer break


8 am or thereabouts
Momo shows up. Dogs aren't sure what to make of human festivals.


Monday

Happi and koikuchi in the house. Must be a festival on


Oh my God


Fancy pants


Japanese weight-saving technology is not generally
applied to portable shrines


Shinto is a primitive, nature-based religion


The following weekend

Jika-tabi washed and drying. My neighbour,
Takaichi-san's family grave in the background