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Kiryu Matsuri
2008.07.31
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The best festival food: Japanese style fried chicken.
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The best festival food: Japanese style fried chicken.
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This shrine is very famous and very old. The carvings were amazing.
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This shrine is very famous and very old. The carvings were amazing.
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This is Gopika. She was an ALT in Kiryu and played taiko in the festival.
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This is Gopika. She was an ALT in Kiryu and played taiko in the festival.
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The Kiryu Yagibushi Matsuri is one of the exciting summer festivals in Gunma. Platforms with taiko drummers, called yagura, are set up every few blocks along the street. There are plenty of vendors with snacks, games, and toys. At the base of some of the platforms are various performances, and at others are large circles of dancers. The drummers also sing a song, whose meaning is something like, "It's silly to dance, but it's silly to watch. If you're going to be silly, you might as well be dancing." At the festival, everyone is free to jump into the circle and learn to do the Yagibushi dance.
