Fire on the Mountain - Japanese Fire Festival

[SuperSalvatore27]

then they sicrifice a demi virgin to the kamis and eat the meat that is good!!!

[novanine]

Great vid. Very interesting.

[HaywireEagle]

Very interesting video, I kinda always wanted to go to a Japanese Festival, but that dream is far off.

side note: Since you say you spend more time with Japanese History then the language itself, which I would guess make it hard to learn at the source. How do you manage to get about? have a handy friend who works like a translator?

[HaywireEagle]

ehh, never mind, I misread, and misinterpreted the whole thing, forget I said anything! my bad!

[Daichen]

is it wrong for me to have this strong urges to throw corns into the big torch?

[Hikosaemon]

Oh yes, vikings, definitely, video needs more vikings...

[Hikosaemon]

Great vid man, your vid with Victor was a great background as well by the way. I had never really detected any perceived deficiencies in your Japanese, because like Victor said, you more than make up for it with your knowledge and appreciation of the history and culture. This matsuri is cool, and I'll bet that few Japanese know much about it. Thanks for making this and keep the vids coming man.

Peace

[RoninDave]

thanks! Yeah, ironically I don't have enough time to study Japanese as I'm often too busy studying Japanese history and going to a slew of festivals. Knowledge of history gives me far more when traveling than being able to ask where the bathrooms are!

Anyway, I've got a ton of footage from various festivals that I have yet to get at editing - easily a dozen from Tohoku alone - but time permitting I will be posting those whenever I can!

[KIZUMAN]

wow!!nice nice!!

I want going!!

[imnot1000sure]

あの祭り　は　きれい　です

beautiful festival

[ElevenColors]

Most excellently watched after shutting the lights off in your room, clicking the link for high quality, clicking the link for full screen, then leaning back and relaxing.

Needs more vikings though!

[CesarLopLeo]

Great video! Looks like it was a heck of fun!

[bartman905]

I agree - great video, thanks also for uploading. Actually was in Kyoto (traveled from Tokyo) for a few days visit 2 days after this festival. Too bad I missed it, looks like a very nice festival, maybe next year.

[Snelis]

Great video! I wish I could be there and feel the atmosphere of such an old tradition. Over here in Sweden, we don't really have those kinds of traditions, only ones from like 18th-20th century. But man, a festival that's 1300 years old. Amazing.

Well, I guess if we had that here in Sweden we'd be raping and pillaging like the old vikings. That wouldn't be alot of fun, so I guess it's a good thing we only have young traditions, :P.

Thanks for uploading!

[RoninDave]

nothing wrong with a bit of Viking fun!