Visual Anthropology of Japan - 日本映像人類学: 地車

Last year we had to cancel the danjiri festrival because our neighborhood leader was in poor health. No one knew if we would be able to do it this year. I received this flyer on Thursday. It announced that thr danjiri would leave the shrine around 11:00 AM on Saturday. Unfortunaley my whole family was sick and I couldn't participate. I hoped I could join in on Sunday. However, as it turned out, it was decided to parade the danjiri for only one day rather than the normal two. So I missed the opportunity to photograph it as I have been doing every year for almost 20 years. Very disappointing.

I did attempt to photograpah the danjiri from the balcony of my house as it went by. Actually, the group usual takes a break at this spot. But this time they didn't. And it seems that many more wires had been put up in front of my house, getting in the way of any decent shot. This is the best I could salvage. The rest of the shots I hastily took are blurry and will only serve as data for this year's autumn festival.

See this post for more background about the autumn danjiri festival: https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2020/05/special-multimodal-bonus-resources-and.html