At the Aomori Nebuta World (青森ねぶたワールド) izakaya in Shinbashi, a Benkei made of paper like the floats in Aomori's Nebuta festival --Benkei (弁慶) is a folk hero, mostly known from Kabuki and based on a real warrior with that name who was a retainer of the famous Kamakura Period samurai Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経, 1159-1189). Incidentally, this izakaya was very good.
(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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