Another cool thing about our trip to Esan was the festival we stumbled across: Mikoshi (the portable shrine above), fireworks and dancing were a nice bonus to the camping experience. Yosakoi dancing is a great laugh, and is a style that was resurrected by a couple of students at a Hakodate university about 30 years ago. Since then it's become amazingly popular throughout Hokkaido and even the rest of Japan. The dancers below were of mixed ability (check the out of step chubby kid!), but it did give me a good taste of what is an essentially cool cultural dance.
Some fool said there weren't enough pictures of Chihiro on the site, so it's not like I need any more prompting than that. Shame I always look so grey-haired and pasty in pictures next to her, but what the hey, camera flash is not my friend.
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