#festi

In his One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, Utagawa Hiroshige shows us scenes from a New Year’s day celebration. In this woodblock print, we can see hints of the New Year in everything from decorations to food and performers! Festive kites are flown high in the sky. A gate pine bends into the frame, a traditional New Year’s decoration. A street theater troop marches up the road, while two manzai performers travel to various samurai residences, chanting and dancing to confer long life to residents. Meanwhile, a sushi sellers sets about delivering food, his arms stacked tall with boxes!

So today at 7PM I was able to attend a festival in Japan. Onomichi Sumiyoshi Fireworks Festival is one of the best thing to complete my Japan experience. The streets are full of Japanese wearing their traditional colorful and intricately designed kimonos and flooding with all sorts of Japanese foods and sweets, dang! Got a ton of good things I want to share with the event but I wasn’t able to capture everything since I always wanted to experience everything firsthand without spoiling it by taking photos after photos which probably be stuck on my phone eating up fine space on my memory.