Little Dancer – Chichibu
At the Chichibu Night Festival, the Chichibuyo Matsuri (秩父夜祭) in Saitama prefecture just north of Tokyo I saw this wonderful little dancers perform on one of the giant dashi (festival carts). It’s the first time I see Japanese traditional dance where the performer is dressed like this. Even though it is a night festival, the day is full of performances and events. The little dancer was accompanied by a couple of shamisen players.
As a bonus, I leave you with the final picture, which contains a few words of wisdom regarding parenthood, a fitting theme I think. Maybe some of my native English speaking readers could have a go at translating it for us? My English would not do justice to the beautiful Japanese message. Enjoy the weekend everyone!
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Parental Advice
A baby should never leave your skin
A toddler should never leave your hand
A child should never leave your sight
A youngster should never leave your mind
Yeah, these really don’t translate well… 🙂
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I think that advice makes perfect sense!
(So says a mother who carried her baby in a sling everywhere, even as she worked in the vegetable garden.)
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Slings FTW! I can’t stand the western innovation of prams… (^-^;)
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I would have used the imperative form on the ~な endings but that is just me. Japanese is just too elegant in cases like this. Thanks! (^-^)
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Never let a baby leave your skin.
Never let a toddler leave your hand.
Never let a child leave your sight.
Never let a youngster leave your mind.
Yeah, probably works better, but the English is less elegant at the same time. One of the advantages of Japanese is you can make elegant sentences with childlike simplicity. English just tries to complicate things…
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A, the double edged sword of simple sentence structures with infuriating vagueness… (^-^;) Thanks for the translation, it looks better indeed!
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She looks so nervous, the little dancer. I wonder if this was her first performance in public.
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Could be! I would have been nervous too, there must have been a hundred people watching here!
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Looks like a living doll 🙂 Beautiful shots!
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Thank you Timi! (^-^)
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