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Hello everyone!!

As I wrote in my recent deviation page, now in Japan we have serial holidays for 5 days.
I drove as I like and went to Kounoura in Sotome town to shoot nature photos.
There, I noticed that some Shinto Festival was held then, and fortunately I could shoot some good pics.
After the Fes I drove to Oonakao terrace, and noticed that Kakashi contest was held there.
Here I show you some of these pics.

Part1 Japanese Shinto Fes



Do you know Japanese Wa-Daiko?(Wa-Taiko 和太鼓 )? (Sigma 28mm F1.8 Macro)



Front side of the Shrine. (Tamron 70-200mm F2.8)



Miko-san (巫女 ) sitting in the shrine. (Tamron 70-200mm F2.8)



Miko-san (巫女 ) sitting in the shrine. (Tamron 70-200mm F2.8)



They started the offering dance in the shrine. (Sigma 18-125mm DC OS HSM)



The offering dance. (Sigma 18-125mm DC OS HSM)



The offering dance. (Tamron 70-200mm F2.8)



Wood bucket for cleansing water. (Tamron 70-200mm F2.8)



Before the parade. (Sigma 28mm F1.8 Macro)



Kan-Nushi (神主, Shinto priest) and Miko-san. (Sigma 28mm F1.8 Macro)



They continued to beat the Taiko(drum) with dancing during the parade. (Tamron 70-200mm F2.8)



Mikoshi (神輿, portable shrine), which is....just like the Arc. (Tamron 70-200mm F2.8)



Miko-san walking in the parade. (Tamron 70-200mm F2.8)



Japanese lantern called as Cho-chin (提灯 ). (Tamron 70-200mm F2.8)



The Mikoshi was carried on their shoulder during the parade. (Tamron 70-200mm F2.8)



Small children from the kindergarten were dancing as well in the parade!! They were very cute!! (Tamron 7-0-200mm F2.8)



They continued beating over hours...looked so tired... (Tamron 70-200mm F2.8)



Japanese flutes were played during the Fes. (Tamron 70-200mm F2.8)



Rest time. They looked really tired xD (Sigma 18-125mm DC OS HSM)


Part2 Kakashi contest

Kakashi (案山子, scarecrow) is the dolls standing in the fields to avoid the birds eating the grains. [link]



There were a lot of varied Kakashi xD (Sigma 18-125mm DC OS HSM)



Oonakao terrace. (Sigma 18-125mm DC OS)



Rice field. (Canon EF50mm F2.5 Compact macro)




See the circles in this pic.
Can you see the lycoris in the left circle and green decoration in the right circle?
I hope you already checked my latest deviation,

yeah, the pic was shot in this place!!
I thought it would be interesting to use the shining green decorations as background bokeh, and thus the pic was shot and the result turned out as I expected xD
As well you can find good situations in commonplace situations like this!!

See you in next journal!!

Tomo



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