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June 12th, 2008 at 6:00 am

Aoba Festival: The Movie

» by David Weber in: Cool!, Gaijin in Japan, Japan, Matsuri, Only In Japan

This is old, old footage taken before I had a video camera. I shot these scenes with a digital photo camera so they’re very low-res. So watch it in HQ.

Anyway, these are some scenes from the first day of the Aoba Festival in Sendai which is several hundred miles north of Tokyo in the Tohoku region.

The festival celebrates the founder of the city - Date Masamune who was a warlord from the 16th-17th Century.

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Thanks! Lovely video and as always, very interesting.

Mr. T on June 12th, 2008

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