Kobe Obon Dancing Summer 2010
Here are the photos and the video from this year Obon Dancing festival (or Obon odori – γηθΈγ in Japanese). Even though it looks like it is in the middle of the countryside it was just a few hundred meters from our apartment in one of the parks of HAT Kobe.
As usual there were a lot of food, drinks (beer) and of course dances.
Actually some of the food – frozen, white, sweet liquid in the form of sausages was distributed for free. On the next picture you can see what is happening when it arrived in the center of the festival.
Just one more picture of the dancing people:
It is really nice that both old and young people are participating. There are many local festivals like this in Japan every year and I thing they are one of the reasons to keep the communities “healthy”.
The official Obon Odori finished around 9:00 p.m. but after that the people started many small hanabi’s (fireworks). Here is a picture from our own one:
Proud to say that we were the last to stay in the park. It was almost 11:15 when we finally finished with the fireworks. I was really surprised that the people leaving in the neighbors didn’t call the police (some of the firecrackers and small rockets were really very noisy). But it was Obon Odori night after all and may be even the policemen themselves were celebrating somewhere :)
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