Yagicho Dashi – Kitsune Hayashi
Another of the many great dashi (mobile ritual stages) of the Hachioji Matsuri, the city festival earlier this month. Yagicho is a small area between Hachioji and Nishihachioji but their dashi had four different dancers at once during the peak hours of the festival. Two white foxes and two red foxes. Foxes hold a special place in Japanese mythology and religion and if you’ve followed this blog for a while you will have seen a lot of fox related posts!
Traditional, authentic, unique!
Absolutely! Thanks for the comment Rommel! (^-^)/
The first one is absolutely amazing!! So lively, feels like an illustration.Excellent job
Thank you for the kind comment Romain! (^-^)/
Super cool, but I’m content to watch the foxes from afar… they frighten me, I’m afraid… too many fox-featured dreams as a kid!
Maybe your mother had your head stuck into their jaws? (^-^;)
I was at that festival! was it held in hino? it was pouring with rain but it was amazing
Hi Laura! I took these at Hachioji, so quite far from Hino. Maybe there was a similar festival that you saw over there? We didn’t have much rain this summer so I would have remembered a rainy festival! (^-^)