Friday, March 31, 2006

Japanese Paper Light Parade


So on the first day of my visit to Japan in November, Kaori and Maika took me to a local parade that they have in Okegawa. It was really cool in that all of the "floats" were painted by hand and lit up from the inside. Don't even get me started on all the food stands.

Here is an example of one of the cool "rotating" floats. Most of them were pulled by hand and a lot of them were being pulled by kids (child labor!) so I guess they couldn't have been too heavy, right? There was even one float that had a real cherry tree on it.

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