More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  I begin the second leg of my walk up the Gonokawa River to its source from my home. I live on the other bank to the one I am walking up. M...

Not only was Thursday Childrens Day and the Kawado Childrens Matsuri, but also the annual Kawado Suijin Matsuri. Following the ceremony in ...

Thursday was the annual Childrens Matsuri acroos the river in Kawado. As well as a small mikoshi, the kids pull a small float of a family of...

On Sunday I went down to Gotsu for the annual Kagura Festival, but after a few hours indoors I couldnt stand it any longer... outside was an...

On the way back from the matsuri up in Yamanaka I stopped in at the matsuri at the Futonorito shrine in Kawado. Kirime was being performed. ...

The procession reaches the riverbank where two boats are waiting to ferry the mikoshi upstream. One boat carries the young men with the bamb...

Most years on May 5th we cross over the river to the Suijin Matsuri in Kawado. This year we went instead to our local Suijin Matsuri in Tan...

After Ichiyama matsuri we stopped in at Kawado, the village just across the river from mine, for the last matsuri of the night. I've wat...