Friday, July 17, 2009

Lantern Festival 2009!

Last night was the Lantern Festival in JP in Boston. (Jamaica Plain is an area in Boston.) It was.....awesome!!!

Schedule: Came at 6pm, started out by making a lantern for the launch at dusk. First on the makeshift stage was Chinese dancers, then some gospel. Then some students over here for work-study at Showa Boston from Japan did a traditional Bon Festival Dance. Awesome! Their yukatas were so beautiful as well...







After that was a traditional Balinese dance about the flirting of 2 bumblebees. And then... the main event! The Academy of Kobudo did a presentation of their Samurai Taiko Drumming and Martial Arts! It was SO COOL. I am seriously thinking about joining.

After that was the lantern launching and bagpipes to accompany.So pretty...



This whole festival I thought would be a small event, but there were SO MANY PEOPLE. It was packed! Whole families came and brought picnic lunches... aw it was so cool. I had a great time.

I took a few videos, I will be trying to upload them to my youtube, until then heres an example from last year of the same Taiko drummers group. (They do it every year.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gvEnC7cTfY&feature=related

EDIT: see my channel for the vids i took! http://www.youtube.com/user/scarscryblood
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7 comments:

  1. ShamJuly 17, 2009 at 6:39 AM

    Hey Ryn-chan,
    That looks so cool. ^^
    But are you sure about joining the Academy of Kobudo? Think about it.

    Sham

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  2. UnknownJuly 17, 2009 at 9:13 AM

    Here is a series of images shot entirely handheld…at twilight, with moving lanterns…

    http://www.rainydaymagazine.com/RDM2009/Home/July/Week3/RDMHomeJul1709.htm#JPLanternFestival

    Click on any of the images for a larger version.

    Sincerely,
    RainyDayInterns

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  3. RynJuly 17, 2009 at 10:31 AM

    thank you very much for the wonderful article and pictures!!

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  4. .July 17, 2009 at 3:18 PM

    that. looks. awesome.


    Did you get to eat the okinomiyaki???

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  5. AnonymousJuly 19, 2009 at 5:39 AM

    Awesome indeed! Those dancers look so pretty.
    I especially like that last picture - I bet that was really neat to see at night. o_o

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  6. RynJuly 20, 2009 at 7:50 AM

    THEY DIDNT HAVE OKONOMIYAKI!! I WAS LIED TO!!!! XD

    and the dancers were awesome!! im so sad i only got a 15 second clip of the end of it! ;_; and there were sooo many lanterns and people, it was great! DEF going again next year.

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  7. Robert StuderJuly 21, 2009 at 12:29 PM

    Yum, Yum

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