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Mikoshi

This is looking in to a mikoshi, portable shrine, at a festival in Hojo. In each shrine is a drummer and a bell ringer. There are 40 or 50 shrines paraded down the streets with20 or 30people carrying them, the mikoshi often 3 abreast. The drummers/bell ringers wear ear plugs, by the way.

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Uploaded on October 12, 2008
Taken on October 11, 2008