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Booth to buy wishing stickers for 500 yen each. Proceeds were donated for recovery efforts in Tohoku.69 views
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Ticket machine to enter the bath. Only 1,000 yen for a hot spring bath. 500 yen for kids older than age 1. Towels can be rented for 200 yen. Give your ticket to the front desk clerk.69 views
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Two indoor baths. In the forefront is a lukewarm bath which feels good after you soak in the hotter bath.69 views
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Mishima Pond with Mt. Ibuki and cherry blossoms.69 views
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The Faculties of Economics and Education are here in Hikone. The other campus is in Otsu. Map of the Hikone Campus.69 views
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Shiga Kaikan69 views
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Popular ramen saw long lines.69 views
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The main exhibits mainly show agricultural machinery (tractors, etc.) and marine engines.69 views
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Hydraulic excavator69 views
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Another power excavator simulator.69 views
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Top view of maruko-bune.69 views
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Campus map. The largely flat, rectangular campus is quite near the shore of Lake Biwa in a rural fishing neighborhood called Hassaka (八坂町) in Hikone.69 views
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The lecture hall is all wood.69 views
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Engineering school69 views
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Manohama Beach69 views
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Hiyoshi Taisha's waterfront torii as seen from the lake.69 views
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This time, we sang with Lake Biwa reed flutists Lake Reed (Kikui Satoru and Kondo Yumiko). It turned out so pretty.69 views
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The original Seta-no-Karahashi Bride was the site of historic battles. It has two bridges, one long and one short going over an island in the river.69 views
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Illustration of the renovated museum with new buildings to open in 2020.69 views
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A small stream empties into Lake Biwa through Haginohama Beach. Numerous streams and rivers like this one feed water to the lake.69 views
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Mt. Mikami across Lake Biwa from Karasaki.69 views
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Michigan paddlewheel boat leaving Otsu Port, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.69 views
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Cherry blossoms along Seta River in Otsu, Lake Biwa's only outflowing river.69 views
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Lake Biwa pearls.69 views
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Lake Yogo's wildlife includes birds like black kites hunting for fish in the lake, mice, frogs, etc Black kites are know to swoop down and steal food from your hand. So watch out if you're eating.69 views
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Nagahara Station in the distance.68 views
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Bicycling to Sugaura.68 views
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Inari Shrine 稲荷神社68 views
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Inside tourist bus68 views
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Lake Biwa Rowing Song (Biwako Shuko no Uta) monument at Hikone Port. Map68 viewsIn June 1917, a song called Biwako Shuko no Uta (Lake Biwa Rowing Song) was composed by college student Taro Oguchi during a boat rowing trip around Lake Biwa. He was a member of the rowing club at Dai-san High School (now Kyoto University). He composed it in Imazu, Shiga Prefecture during the second night of the trip.
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Tunnels68 views
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Main hall68 views
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Seta Karahashi Bridge before the new paint job.68 views
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Seta Castle site68 views
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Terrace facing south and looking at the west side. Nagahama Castle in background.68 views
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Torch stem68 views
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Ryuoji Temple 龍王寺68 views
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Ritto City Hall. MAP68 views
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Front garden68 views
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Toyosato Station platform.68 views
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The top two rows of washi sheets already pasted together.68 views
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Most races were not close.68 views
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Writing the winning team's name on the award certificate (one per team). Students from Doshisha University Rowing Club served as volunteer staff.68 views
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Mikoshi portable shrine storehouse68 views
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Parallel to Echigawa Station is the elevated shinkansen tracks.68 views
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Shinkansen tracks and cycling path68 views
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The entire Haiden Hall is hoisted up. The foundation pillars were being replaced.68 views
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Way to Tamura Shrine's Honden Main Hall. Stone lanterns are donated by parishioners.68 views
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The ceremony has a pot of boiling water.68 views
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The boys in blue on both ends are holding a string to serve as a guide for planting the seedlings in a straight line.68 views
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Besides the rice planters, there are rice-planting dancers who dance along the paddy's perimeter. They dance to the rice-planting song sung on stage. 御田植踊68 views
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These two girls did away with the hat which could not stay on.68 views
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On stage, shrine maidens perform the Yuminomai Arrow Dance. 弓の舞68 views
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Washing their hands in a bucket of water.68 views
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Nakasendo Road in Takamiya, near the Honjin (left) and Enshoji Temple (right).68 views
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Stone marker indicating that Emperor Meiji stayed here.68 views
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Main hall of Enshoji.68 views
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On the right of the flooded section are rice paddies not yet flooded. Shiga wants to eventually purchase all the reclaimed land and flood the entire area to restore Hayasaki Naiko.68 views
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View of Hayasaki Naiko from the eastern edge. One stumbling block to the restoration is high land prices. Shiga needs to purchase all of the reclaimed land.68 views
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What used to be a lake is a rice paddy. Imagine this to be a lake, with an embankment in front of these homes.68 views
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Stone marker between Azusa and Kashiwabara-juku.68 views
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Samegai Museum in a former post office designed by William Merrell Vories, Samegai, Shiga Pref. 旧醒井郵便局局舎 MAP68 views
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Inside post office designed by William Merrell Vories.68 views
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Built in 1992, Deai-no-Mori Public Library is part of a lush, green park. 10-min. walk from Takatsuki Station. Hours: 10 am - 6 pm, closed Mon., Tue., national holidays, and year end/New Year's. 出会いの森図書館 [url=http://goo.gl/maps/DW6c3]68 views
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The public library's 2nd floor has this Inoue Yasushi Memorial Room. Inoue (1907-1991) was a famous novelist who visited Takatsuki a lot and wrote novels featuring Takatsuki's Kannon statues. 井上靖記念室68 views
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Entry to the Amenomori Hoshu-an. It exhibits things, books, documents, etc., related to Amenomori Hoshu. Admission 250 yen. Hours: 9 am - 4 pm, closed Mon. Phone: 0749-85-509568 views
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Quadruple with cox going to the start line.68 views
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Misspelled word (Prirate).68 views
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Yomeien Garden68 views
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Free acupuncture.68 views
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Sake from Shiga68 views
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Path to summit68 views
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Ibukiyama gondola station and lilies68 views
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These lilies start to bloom from twilight.68 views
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Mt. Ibuki as seen from Lake Biwa.68 views
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LakeStars merchandise included notebooks, towels, and stickers.68 views
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The gym got dark and the cheerleaders appeared.68 views
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Nicknamed "Wara," Fujiwara Takamichi is from Fukuoka and played for Niigata Albirex BB before coming to Shiga.68 views
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Players shake hands.68 views
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Unfortunately, the LakeStars missed one too many shots and lost the game, 93-96. It was an exciting game even though we lost.68 views
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In winter, migratory birds come to Hayasaki Naiko Biotope.68 views
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Koto strings made of Azai silk threads. Numerous silk threads are twisted together to make a koto string.68 views
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Silk cocoons.68 views
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Boosters for the Shiga LakeStars made quite a bit of noise.68 views
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Takashi Fujiwara of the Shiga LakeStars being covered by Masashi Joho of Tokyo Apache.68 views
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Brayden Billbe trying to find a receiver for a pass.68 views
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Ray Schafer68 views
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GumQ and their fantastic halftime performance.68 views
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Shiga LakeStars sign on a nearby building. 68 views
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LakeStars players introduced.68 views
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They are cheering "YMCA."68 views
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They are good, they even won a cheerleading award in the bj-league.68 views
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The crowd line the procession route to the Chawan Matsuri no Yakata museum a short distance away. This is at the intersection called Torii-mae (鳥居前).68 views
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The floats are constructed without using any metal nor conventional rope. Instead of rope, they use wisteria vines kneaded together. The decorations have dolls, chawan teacups, bowls, and objects related to the story depicted.68 views
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Notice the teacups and bowls and sword. They are intricately connected somehow. The kanji characters for "Chushingura" is in a frame lined with teacups at the bottom of the photo. 忠臣蔵の討ち入り場面68 views
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Most were boys, but a few were real girls. This is yet another great spectacle of the festival.68 views
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The doll at the bottom is Oishi Kuranosuke, the leader of the 47 ronin who avenged their lord by capturing and beheading Kira who had taunted their master who drew his sword in the shogun's palace in anger and cut Kira's forehead.68 views
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Shishi-no-Mai or Lion Dance. Acrobatic dance by boys. They were the crowd pleaser. You have to see the video to see what they did here.68 views
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Standing up the O-nobori at the Otabisho during the Kawakami Matsuri in Imazu, Takashima. 68 views
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The festival started with a Shinto ceremony at the shrine with two mikoshi portable shrines present. Then at 1 pm, they left the shrine and carried the mikoshi in their neighborhoods.68 views
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Naginata boys68 views
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While ringing a bell, he provided the dance beat for the flower hat girls.68 views
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Three mikoshi and two children's mikoshi are placed in front of the shrine to be blessed.68 views
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Children's mikoshi make its way.68 views
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Agri-Park Ryuo is a local farmer's market with a few shops and restaurants, a pond with swan boats, farm house museum, and petting zoo. アグリパーク竜王 MAP68 views
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Old farming tools68 views
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Suginoki Shrine 68 views
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Tenjin-machi hikiyama float entering Minakuchi Shrine. 68 views
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They ran at full speed while pulling the float.68 views
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Old Tokaido Road.68 views
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Daitokuji Temple's founding priest was an uncle of Honda Tadakatsu (Heihachiro), one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's important generals. Due to this connection, Ieyasu lodged in Minakuchi on his way to Kyoto and visited Daitokuji.68 views
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A short walk from Minakuchi Ishibashi Station is Minakuchi Chubu Community Center.68 views
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Shintokuji temple. 真徳寺68 views
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Minakuchi Hikiyama float storehouse68 views
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In 1601, Minakuchi-juku was designated as the 50th stage or post town on the Tokaido Road. It had 718 households. By the late Edo Period, Minakuchi had over 40 inns as well as a Honjin. Today, Minakuchi is one of the main populated areas of Koka.68 views
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About Minakuchi Stone68 views
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Lodging68 views
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Men dressed as mountain ascetic priests (yamabushi).68 views
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Yakko-furi men arrive.68 views
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After entering the shrine and drumming for a while, they started to form a circle.68 views
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The young drummers performed very well.68 views
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They had quickly spread four strips of straw mats on the ground for the drummers.68 views
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They face the shrine.68 views
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Looking toward Maibara Station. You can see the tiny Heiwado sign with the white dove. That's next to Maibara Station.68 views
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Naganoya, Yamauchi Kazutoyo's childhood home. The front gate, made of wood, collapsed some years ago, and this wooden structure is all that's left. 長野家68 views
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Boosters behind the Lakestars bench.68 views
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Both teams shake hands.68 views
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Bobby Nash and Shinya68 views
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Head coach Robert Pierce chats with an ardent fan in a wheelchair.68 views
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Introduction of starting five. This is Luke Zellar.68 views
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Next was Shuyukan, a former sake warehouse (not Vories-designed) now serving as an exhibition space and restaurant. The exhibition featured photos of Vories buildings in the summer resort of Karuizawa, Nagano Pref. 酒游舘68 views
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An NPO called Hitotsubu no Kai (一粒の会) has an office inside and they work to renovate the building.68 views
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Vories acquired the rights to sell Mentholatum products in 1920, and his Omi Sales Company sold the product in Japan as, "Menturm." It was a good source of income to finance his activities.68 views
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Side view. This building served as the Hachiman YMCA until 1987. It was left unused and dilapidated for 20 years until Omi Brotherhood Co. renovated it in 2007 to mark the building's 100th anniversary.68 views
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Hachiman Church Pastor House68 views
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Built in 1913, this Yoshida Residence was designed by William Merrell Vories for Yoshida Etsuzo who was a former student and partner of Vories for the Omi Mission. This house is still occupied and not open to the public. 吉田邸68 views
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Hokkoku Kaido road going through post town Kinomoto-juku 北国街道68 views
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Way to Shakudoji temple68 views
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Some talking between Hashi and Miura. (The woman is the MC.)68 views
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Introduction of Tokyo Apache players. The team's colors are purple and black.68 views
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Joho contemplating a shot.68 views
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Shirabyoshi dancers from the Heian Period.68 views
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Soldiers from the Ii clan.68 views
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After the red torii is this red Romon Gate, said to have been donated by Shogun Ashikaga Takauji. The shrine also has historic ties to Minamoto Yoritomo and the Tokugawa shoguns.68 views
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The Ayame taiko girls turn back for the last time and head for the shrine.68 views
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Torii to Tagi Jinja.68 views
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The next part of the festival featured numerous hanagasa flower umbrellas stuffed with little goodies.68 views
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Festival spectators68 views
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Kobiyoshi Shrine's Honden main hall.68 views
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The Shichikawa Matsuri is held on the same day as the Omizo Matsuri in neighboring Omi-Takashima. So I saw the Omizo Matsuri in the morning, then rushed over to see this festival.68 views
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The path to the shrine also serves as the horse track (baba 馬場) for galloping horses (yabusame).68 views
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They performed their routine twice along different sections of this horse track to enable everyone to see it. It was about 20 min. long.68 views
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They made a U-turn at the Otabisho near the lake shore.68 views
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The floats started arriving at Hiyoshi Jinja by 10:30 am. 68 views
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Mayors vow to meet at the next Takatora Summit.68 views
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Teacher's desk68 views
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Corridor runs through the center of the boat, with sleeping quarters on both sides.68 views
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Carrying the main mikoshi to the boat.68 views
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The fireworks barge can be seen on the distance.68 views
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Yutani Shrine is a short walk from the east exit of JR Maibara Station. Its history spans many centuries. It once was the guardian shrine for the Kyogoku castle lord living on the hill above it. 湯谷神社68 views
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The Juzan hikiyama float is hauled toward the shrine exit.68 views
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