The Samurai parade

Wed 2010/05/05 14:43 JST

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Its been a while I didn't post some photos here. I am very busy for the moment, but I came to share with you a very cool Matsuri I ve seen on monday.
This Matsuri is held in Odawara, near Tokyo, (1hour and 30 min from shinjuku I think) where thousand of people with Samurai armor make a reconstitution of the great period of Odawara..

Samurai, horse, ninja, soldiers,… A place to visit to go back to the past.

I have tons of photos and video, so I made a tiny selection to show you.. if you want more, please visit www.lifeyou.tv ( I will update the site during the next days)

So first, here is a video of a little part of the parade:

I found a very nice place to take video and photos at less then a meter from the parade.. at the end of the city tour ( so the samurai are certainly tired ^^ ), but at this place it was not full of people.. you will see on the photos bellow place with million of people.

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All the politicians from Odawara were also playing the game

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Some ninja

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beautiful woman

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Some traditional mikoshi that you can see in most of the Matsuri

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a lot of people! I took more then 2 hours to cross this place.. ( needed only 10min in the early morning when everybody didn t arrived yet)

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funny samurai

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some people seems to really came from the past

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