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Momiji-ichi

On Saturday the weather was nice, we got out a bit early (by our standards) and went to Izumi-Tamagawa where was being held Momiji-ichi over the weekend. Momiji-ichi was a market-like event held in a big park. There with many stands selling food, craft, and also holding workshops. Many hundreds of people were there, even lining up before the opening. The public was mainly women, considering the LOHAS/eco theme, although there were many couples and also parents with young kids.

Upon getting there, we split ways to go line up at different shops. There were so many people that there were lines everywhere. I first lined up at a cheesecake shop called KUR@RI from Wakayama prefecture, which usually only sells online. It took over an hour to get the goods and I was close to losing patience, but eating their cheesecakes and cookies later at home they were delicious.

Meanwhile everyone around me was eating those curled sausages and I just had to get one later at Seijō-Shirota kōbō. Other highlights were some good bread shops such as cimai from Saitama, and this robot factory, a workshop for kids to make their own "robots" out of wood and plastic parts (I didn't join them though). :)

Later there was also music, and we enjoyed a full show by Kotringo, a pianist singer-songwriter who was previously produced by Sakamoto Ryūichi but recently released a self-produced album. She was great, and the atmosphere was just right to enjoy her music. Towards the end of the show everyone flew paper airplanes at the end of the song "hikōki-gumo".

While watching the show we were actually standing in line at a crêpe shop where each crêpe was cooked upon order, and took a good 5 minutes to serve. We barely went forward for maybe an hour and a half. The next show was by Takano Hiroshi who performed solo on guitar, lately better known as being part of pupa (who I saw in August at World Happiness). He performed solo on guitar. After a few songs we called it quits and left with no crêpe.

The event was quite seriously organized and they even released a CD compilation for it. Produced by Itō Gorō (of naomi & goro), it consists of covers and features achordion (who also played on Saturday), Kotringo, naomi & goro, tico moon and others. The title is "tabi to ongaku to," ("travel and music and,") .

It was a nice refreshing day, except for the endless lines...!

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Posted on October 27, 2008 at 00:26 | Tweet |

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