P u r i f i c a t i o n, a photo from Aichi, Chubu

Photographer's Note

During ¨Toba no Himatsuri¨ (the fire festival of Toba), participants called ¨Shin-Ooko¨(holy men) in unique costumes made from old festival banners await the climax of this one of most peculiar, extraordinary festival in Japan.
Oficial name is: ¨Toba-dai-kagaribi¨ (the great bonfire of Toba) and it was registered as a National Intangible Folk Cultural Property, which annually take place on the second Sunday of February.
Directions:
By train: Mikawa-Toba Station
(Meitetsu Gamagori Line).
The Toba Shinmeisha shrine is 10 minutes on foot from the station.

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13 Feb 2011 - 18:52

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bukitgolfb301 (53894) 2011-08-21 1:07

Hi Ola my dear George

How are you? So long time for no news from you!
Great masterpiece you captured!
The light from fires is so natural and so impressive.
You did a great job indeed! Actually I do not know this festival, I will try to join next year.
Thanks for your sharing with nice shot and have a good Sunday evening.

Best regrads,
Takero from Tokyo, while heavy rain, cold 23℃

kato (11630) 2011-08-23 7:02

Hi George,

You're capturing well this fire festival by a good composition ad excellent tone, so it's impressive and interesting to see unique costume and bonfire. It's impressive in expression of participants, fire and smoke, too.

Regards,
mikio