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Mitama matsuri
Yesterday we went to Mitama matsuri at Yasukuni shrine (first time I see a shrine's Web site with a 3D Flash intro). The large festival has maybe a hundred of food and game stalls, on-going dance and other attractions, and 29000 lanterns. It was the first time I went to a matsuri this year, and also the first time I went to the large war memorial shrine which often makes controversial news headlines because of the prime minister's stubborn visits which anger China and South Korea.
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The festival is also host to some stranger attractions, such as a haunted house where I think live monsters chase you around (many girls ran out of there screaming), and most interestingly a freak show by derisha sui-tosu, which was the reason we went in the first place.Pictured 蛇女 (snake girl) freaked out the audience by putting a chain into her nose and out from her mouth, attaching it to a water bucket and then lifting it a good meter. Later she bit off and ate the tail of a live [garden] snake. She kept encouraging audience to take pictures and put them on their blogs, so here we go!
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This last one is of another guy who showed off his treasured "plastonic"-ized real human body slice.
We could technically stay in the freak show tent for a while, but it was so hot and packed in there that we really couldn't stand it more than a few minutes. On my way out, I bought derisha sui-tosu's recently out photo book 「デリシャスウィートスのコケット画報」 which includes a CD.
Posted on July 16, 2005 at 18:34 | Tweet
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yikes .. makes you wonder what other tricks snake girl can do :)
Posted by Peter Nacken on July 17, 2005 at 00:05
Nice pictures, too bad the first few are bit blurry.
Posted by Papigiulio on July 19, 2005 at 18:33
Thank you! It's always hard to get sharp photos in a dark place. I think I'd need a better camera and/or a tripod.
Posted by Patrick on July 19, 2005 at 19:12
Yeh tell me about it, i tried it in a club a few tiems, almost undoable :P
And bringing your ipod is well alot of work carrying it all around :\
Posted by Papigiulio on July 22, 2005 at 04:43
whoops i meant tripod off course :P
Posted by Papigiulio on July 22, 2005 at 04:43
Nice photos, I couldn't make it this year. Looks like it was fun.
Posted by Paul on July 22, 2005 at 14:40