{"id":5221,"date":"2010-04-19T12:15:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T19:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=5221"},"modified":"2010-04-16T01:20:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T08:20:50","slug":"festival-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/festival-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While waiting for Takeda Shingen (\u6b66\u7530\u4fe1\u7384) and Yamamoto Kansuke (\u5c71\u672c\u52d8\u52a9) to arrive at Takeda Jinja<\/a> there wasn’t much to do but take pictures of people in the crowd. People were taking pictures of me, the token foreigner at the event, so I got in on the action as well.<\/p>\n

First off, we have some of Takeda Shingen’s army.<\/p>\n

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Some Japanese ladies of various ages…<\/p>\n

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This dance group featured music and performances to welcome the main Shingen group and to see them off. It was almost comical given how un-Shingen era the style and sound was. I’ll put a video at the end of this blog entry so you can see and hear more. <\/p>\n

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The night before I arrived there was a Koihime Contest (\u6e56\u8863\u59eb\u30b3\u30f3\u30c6\u30b9\u30c8), or so my Shingen Festival program says. The winner got 300,000 yen (about $3,200). Was this the winner? I’m not sure. She was in the regiment with Shingen so I’m thinking she could have been the contest victor and won this honor in addition to the cash.<\/p>\n

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\"ikki<\/a><\/p>\n

These were the festival faces people wanted to see the most, Takeda Shingen and the favorite of his 24 generals Yamamoto Kansuke. Takeda Shingen (on the left) was portrayed by Ikki Sawamura (\u6ca2\u6751\u4e00\u6a39) and Yamamoto was acted out by Goro Ibuki (\u4f0a\u5439\u543e\u90ce). Both are apparently quite famous actors in Japan. I hadn’t heard of either. <\/p>\n

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