in this video I'm going to show you guys
what it's like at a Japanese festival
not only from the outside but behind the
scenes access alright so just got to the
station meeting Naoto now where is he
pinky so now it was my good friend who I
play basketball with he graciously
agreed to let me follow him for the day
so I could show you guys what it's like
to be part of a Japanese festival called
Keith Izawa Ho Chi Minh Aki mud city we
don't care about the rain so natto is
here he's actually changing into his
mikoshi outfit if he doesn't wear this
they're not gonna allow him
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and it's goofy yeah what is this so he's
actually putting on the Obi right now
which is kind of the hardest thing to do
it looks like
okay all right so here's the final look
hop you rode with a team name on it
pretty clean bright
what did you mean there's no because
you're con you stick up you're talking
gonna know my city was hooked so I don't
know if you guys know but I couldn't you
said he wanted me to help carry them
because you today no I don't know if I'm
actually prepared to do that like I'm
not very strong that's Michael laughing
in the background totally accepting when
you see someone you might get so I
thought you know
some of the team members joined us to
also get ready for the festival and then
now to introduce me to some more people
so as you can see behind me in Chinese
people who don't know how to defend
their movies because I don't do it very
often finally got that lb on and now
we're on our way to the main street to
kick off the festival everyone from all
eight teams is gathered around which is
awesome because you can check out all
the various happenings
I can feel the energy in the air
starting to simmer
Crazy's 10:00 in the morning it's really
weird reading so early this is how you
do it here now that I've received my
first beer from the team time they get
to know the rest of the crew no you're
good she gave us your name nothing wrong
way no mana Kiva sources the kuruma
driven technique employee otto - dos
co-co-co co-co-co my - security you
attend o Hanuman Sarita so what am I to
say hi like I didn't really know this
but he's quite popular so as you can see
behind me like a lot of people are like
coming up to him and introducing
themselves are just like saying hello
the Holden's say he's running this place
that he's actually kind of like an
integral part of this festival like a
leaves for his team before we go any
further let me explain a little for
those who don't know because she is a
traditional ritual that happened at some
Japanese festivals Khushi is the name of
the portable Shinto shrine that people
carry around followers believe it
service as a vehicle to transport the
God while moving between its main shrine
and it throughout the neighborhood and
spread its power among the people Naoto
knowing all things about the festival
told me that this year is special as
they're bringing out of mikoshi that
only appears once every three years and
today was a shrines five hundred and
fiftieth birthday
I got to help carry it I feel like I'm a
part of history I'm still doing it while
the rain is really coming down right now
it's super crazy are still doing the
omakase so they just finished the first
round of the mikoshi that was kind of
like a break time and everyone is gonna
go get curry and we lost now though
because he actually continued so we
gotta go find him so then we can have
some curry well so as you guys can see
behind me there's people getting curries
so if you participate in an event you
get three curry and if you like a little
closer if they're actually giving out
beer all right everyone is just
finishing up their curry you can see
actually the rain has let up which is
like cover godsend that was just super
crazy with all that rain trying to carry
that mushy but now it's like starting to
get sunny a little bit we're just
getting a little humid which I don't
really like is it getting like hot and
sticky out here and we're gonna all
break up into the eight different groups
and everyone it's gonna carry their own
mikoshi and here's how teams golden
mikoshi it's so cool right this clapping
rhythm you here is called upon Gmail you
usually hear it at the end of the event
but in this festival it seems to be a
sign that things are going to start at
noon our teams because she finally
started but I think that drinking from
most team members what's already well
underway
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dizzi the reason why people are like
lined up is that they like take turns
carrying this so the people that are
like in line right now they're actually
waiting to hold them okay by the way the
reason why they wildly bouncing the
mikoshi up and down with crazy high
energy is because it's believed that it
uses the god inside but to me it seems
like if people enjoy it
way more
in my mouth
the kids actually do it as well so here
is a shrine that everyone is heading to
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so this shrine area is pretty cool you
can see that like families of all come
here you see all the kids playing around
it's like a pretty family-oriented
atmosphere which is nice so if you don't
want to participate in the actual like
mikoshi
if you just bring your family here wait
for the mikoshi to come and just like
enjoy the day cuz I have food stalls
over there they have some entertainment
so it's like a pretty cool place to like
go and like hang out now amiko she
arrives at the shrine one by one so it's
a lot heavier workload for them because
she teams towards the end of the line
now does English second from the last to
arrive but they all look so happy and
now all they have left is to go up the
stairs to the main shrine
this was the mikoshi that we were saying
earlier let me show you really closely
how much detail is put into this so it
has these dope dragons all over it I'm
guessing they are messengers for the god
and check out these beautiful carvings
and a spectacular golden bird on top the
other team even has a sleek black bars
and purple design with Tigers and
Dragons all right so one of the problems
of these things that you always right
now I'm actually looking for where is
actually has a check it out in another
video this is what it's all about
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our RTD 101 C juicy
NATO is getting a little bit intense he
keeps on ordering drinks I guess this is
part of the entire like mikoshi thing I
think we got to find the rest of the
group now
in college oh god offender oh there was
two alright so that concludes the video
because I think it's time to conclude
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