Hey there,
Well, I had an extremely exciting, unique, and painful experience at this years Summer Taiko Matsuri. I recommend that everyone, everywhere go to the Kyoto area around summer time. Every major area seems to have it own way to celebrate. The festivals has ancient roots related to fun things like flooding and disease; trust me, its a blast.
This particular matsuri (festival) involves a bunch of men to lift and extremely heavy shrine and some kids to play drums inside of it. We carried it through the streets of Yawata for 3 days, drinking and shouting along the way.
The last day was, for lack of a better term, friggin sweet. 4+ teams of people parade through the local shrine and compete by throwing the shrine in the air and shouting at the top of their lungs. It was as fun as it was dangerous.
There is no real way to describe it, but I will say this - my shoulder was bleeding on the 3rd day. Just check out the pictures. Better yet, get to Japan ASAP and see for yourself.
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