Thursday, November 14, 2013

(432) Nebuta in Asakusa – 4


And the third nebuta float, this time unrelated to Asakusa but suggestive of its larger brethren in Aomori: with imagery of Chinese or Japanese warriors of old, borrowed either from history or from mythology and legends.  

(For a bigger version of this picture both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore" set on Flickr)

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