2025 Fall Festival / 秋祭り Danjiri shot serves as data only...

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

秋祭 / Fall Festival 2021 (pt.1): canceled again due to COVID-19, but a few of us got together in the morning to drag the danjiri out of storage and clean it for the the first time in two years; it was good to see my friends again and participate in other activities at the shrine in the afternoon (to be continued...)

Last year: https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2020/10/no-fall-festival-this-year-danjiri.html

All you need to know about the fall festival through the years! SPECIAL MULTIMODAL BONUS RESOURCES AND PHOTOS FOR「Neighborhood Autumn Festival in Japan: A Multimodal Visual Ethnography and Performance: https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2020/05/special-multimodal-bonus-resources-and.html