Just a quick, fairly terrible video of the goings-on at the samurai race day.
Tags: haranomachi, mock battle, races, samurai, samurai festival, soma, soma nomaoi, videosAfter the samurai races, they all ride back home to their towns. They make a bit of a parade of it, and I snapped some more photos.
Tags: haranomachi, horses, samurai, samurai festival, soma nomaoiThis weekend was the Sendai Tanabata Festival, which is kind of a big deal. We’re lucky to be in Sendai for it, so our friends Abigail & Shelly came up from the Fukushima coast to make a weekend of it. And did we ever!
Tags: 2010, festival, matsuri, photos, sendai, tanabata