Aki Matsuri Videos

(Austin) I want to preface this by saying sorry for the lack of updates lately.  School has been pretty busy and I recently started a few new personal programming projects, so when I -did- have free time from school, my time was consumed by that.  The posts over the next few days will be playing catch up on these 2-3 weeks of no posts.

With that said, here are some videos of the Aki Matsuri (fall festival) that Elijah posted about already here.

As a note, something went wrong when recording these videos, so there is no audio. I am sorry :/

This features the festival's Danjiri, a special Box, pushed by the locals that contains the local "Kami", or God.

Another video about the Danjiri, this time focused on the dancing.

Opening Ceremony Visual Aid

I meant to upload this the day of the Opening Ceremony.. but then I got lazy. Specifically because there are videos involved and I didn't know how I wanted to deal with them.

That being said, the opening ceremony was really interesting to see. The food was also really good. The banquet was a combination of foods from around the world. There were the typical Japanese foods likes Curry Rice but there was also Italian Pizza and American Cheese Burgers. 

The pictures are of the Street Performance preformed at the Opening Ceremony. It is called Nankin Tamasudare, a traditional Japanese performance using lightly woven bamboo sticks to make shapes.

Torii Gates

Suspension Bridge

Arch

So many arches you'd think you were in ancient Rome!

A School of fish

Up close and Fishy

Fishing rods, gotta catch that school of fish!

Mount Fuji

Just look at that mount range!

The performers after the ceremony was over.

I also took a short video of the actual performance.

NOTE: The audio is loud and... not very good. So I would turn down your speakers before playing.

A small example of what went on to make each shape.

This was them leaving after the performance was over.

Also, I got a single picture of the food before all the hungry college students decimated the table. It was a brutal fight for food, only the strongest survived.

Not pictured here were the other 3 tables exactly like this one plus the other food stands.

It was delicious.