Japanese Festivals 🍡 ⛩ 🎏 🌸 🎆

[DIO-Berry]

@ekg

Dang! Those nipples though! That’s realism for you: demons also have nipples and don’t you forget it!

At the last Inari shrine I went to, the female foxes had human boobs and nips instead of fox teets and I just nO

[Belthazar]

I enjoyed Wood Job, though I can’t honestly say I recall any festivals in it. To be fair, mind, I did see it a while ago.

[DIO-Berry]

It’s the part where he rides the log down the really big hill. The log is either carved or just supposed to be a penis and go through the vagina wreath at the bottom of the hill. It’s the second to last scene iirc

[Belthazar]

… Calm down there, Freud.

It was the very real Onbashira Festival. They’re just logs, no carving.

[morteASD]

@NRT2019

アース・セレブレーション

Now this is a celebration I can get behind.

[ekg]

My biggest fixation about Japanese festivals is still the foooood! Here’s a pretty comprehensive list of dishes you might wanna try if you get the chance!
(there are also tips for where in Japan you’ll find these festival foods)

100 of the Best Japanese Festival Food

[DIO-Berry]

@Belthazar

… Calm down there, Freud.

It was the very real Onbashira Festival . They’re just logs, no carving.

Good to know, but the sexual interpretation was from a Japanese film course I took. Tbf pretty much any long cylindrical object entering a circle is a visual representation of sex in movies.. Although I see how the real life version is probably not sexual.

[DIO-Berry]

@Belthazar

It was the very real Onbashira Festival . They’re just logs, no carving.

I gave the scene another watch in the movie, and they don’t seem to be the same. The Japanese wikipedia for Wood Job also cites a different festival/god that doesn’t have shrines in the same prefecture as the Onbashira Festival.

[beckswithspecks]

Kimono Mom uploaded a video about Tori no Ichi. It’s got lots of info and a cute baby

Traditional Market | Japan | Torinoichi

[ekg]

Churches here really should try to engage the community more like this. I know they do art exhibitions and musical concerts - which is good. But, nothing like this that gets the locals visit just because it’s fun or have locals getting involved making a festival happen! I guess, it’s a bit too late, mostly retired old people go to church here. I’m an atheist, but I do enjoy the cultural history of the really old church buildings here (among the oldest in the country) and keeping them alive for future generations. For that you need to engage the locals, and not just on Christmas Day!