20110804-20110809 Japan : Aomori Nebuta Festival


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Aomori Nebuta Festival (青森ねぶた祭, official site)
Aomori Nebuta Festival is being held in Aomori City, Aomori Prefecture, between 02-07 August each year. The main attraction of the festival is the night parade of :
* Nebuta Dashi (Nebuta 山車, cart carrying the Nebuta)
* Hayashi (囃子, musicians), mainly consists of 3 types of instrument players : fue (笛, flute), taiko (太鼓, Japanese drum), and teburigane (手振鉦, hand cymbals)
* Haneto (跳人, jumper/dancers, sometimes including Baketo (化人, Japanese style clown))
There are also a day time parade and night fireworks show in the last day of the festival.
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Nebuta positioning for the start Hayashi party playing their instruments readying for the start Start of the parade and the Haneto party started their jump/dance
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Nebuta Haneto, with Macross F's Ranka Lee and Sheryl Nome (blurry due to low light condition) walking pass Nebuta
Nebuta Nebuta Next day we bumped into the Nebuta storage area by chance
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Nebuta positioning for the day parade Start of the day parade : Hayashi Hayashi
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Night parade : Nebuta
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Hayashi
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Nebuta
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Hayashi
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Nebuta
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Haneto
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Haneto
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