I’m not sure why the Japanese have scary demonlike figures on their floats at festivals. Here a few creepy pics from the other night. Normally the dragons are pretty neat looking but this one looked a bit possessed.
50th Misawa Summer Festival 2008
We headed right out the gate last night to watch the 50th Misawa Summer festival floats parade, sadly it is our last one as we are moving soon. I got to practice my taking pictures in the dark skills and was happy with the results. We ate our favorites: Yakatori (chicken on a stick), crepes, french fries, and bananas on a stick covered with chocolate & sprinkles.
Boo got to meet up with some of [Read more…]
Small Japanese Glass Fishing Floats & Sea Glass
I wanted to do a blog about the smaller Japanese Glass Fishing floats. These are harder to find on the main island but can easily be found on a trip to Hokkaido (which is semi expensive). They can be bought from local vendors but they don’t look the same as the found ones…they look less authentic I guess. At the last bazar we did end up purchasing a few different sized ones we didn’t have like [Read more…]