What is really good about these festivals is that everyone really, really, really has fun. I often wonder about Australian festivals and events. It seems that the fun is always a little forced and contrived.The Sugito festival was a wild affair, the normal reserved Japanese really let their hair down. Yet I saw no anger, complete drunkeness or general mess. Small children were running around with everyone keeping a lookout for them.
The Sugito festival has been going for 400 years and has a wonderful history and the most beautiful Mikoshi and larger floats.
My rather lounge lizardish chum, "Jimmy", is one of the names he uses, went up in my estimation. Instead of drinking too much or chasing women, his usual pastimes, he spent the entire time fussing over his 93 old mother and wheeling her around the place.
This will be a rather photo filled blog post as I want to give you an idea of what it all looks and feels like.
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