Thursday, June 07, 2007

kyudo, the way of the arrow

Last weekend there was a massive festival in Kanazawa. It's called Hyaku-man Goku matsuri, or 'the 1 million bales of rice festival', celebrating Kanazawa's heritage of being the richest prefecture in Japan.

Unfortunately, I missed the Parade, but while wandering through the park with Erin Chapman, who came to visit me all the way from Osaka, we stumbled upon an archery contest.

courtesy of Erin Chapman

This girl won the whole competition to become the Grand Archer of Ishikawa Prefecture.

watch her shoot an arrow!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hahaha! osaka and kanazawa are about the same distance as london and toronto... funny, non?

i love your sequence shot! very cool. she was spectacular. sagoi!

i found out there's a place in osaka where you can play all kinds of sports, EVEN ARCHERY!! i have to go try it. i think it's in umeda.

Captain Gavman said...

Hey,

Thanks for the phone call the other day. It was really nice to hear your voice and get a sneak peak of what your weekend was like.

That archery contest looks distinctly japanese in the new-style of quasi-komonos or whatever.

I'll turn my skype on again if you're mic is working.