San in Japan

The blog of a young British woman taking on a new life in Japan as an assistant language teacher. No, I've never been to Japan before this, I don't speak the language, nor have I ever stood up in front of a class and taught before. This should be interesting...

Sunday, 19 August 2007

Gongo Matsuri

The night I left for Tokyo, I attended my town's festival: Gongo Matsuri.
It centres around a water sprite called a Kappa/Gongo who looks like a frog with legs and lives in the Yoshii-gawa river...yes- exciting times in Tsuyama. Anyway, it's a big deal and people from surrounding towns come to enter the dance contest and watch the hanabi (fireworks) display.




The guy in the costume randomly wanted to be in our picture...




Yasumi, Sean and Jane


The gaikokojinn (foreigner) crew of Tsuyama...

And here's a song I was a little obsessed with for a while. Enjoy.

Posted by San in Japan at 20:52

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