Kunchi festival

Every year in October, there is a festival arranged in Nagasaki with a huge market and a spectacular show. To get tickets to this show, you have to pay a lot of money and buy the tickets 2 years in advance.

I managed to get this ticket for free and was at this spectacular 4,5 hour show this morning. The show included dancing, geishas and some kind of theatre that showed the history of Nagasaki.

This shows when the people from The Netherlands enterd the port. The children are playing the music to put people in a "trans" condition.
Children playing the empiror.
This guy was carrying a huge "tower" all by himself. Whenever he started to rotate, the crowed got crazy and started to scream.
The dance of the geisha.


The creapy thing about this was the music that kind of put people in "trance". The huge ships shown on this picutres had tires made out of wood and were heavy. To rotate them requires strenght. As soon as the rotatioin of the ship started, people started screeming and jumping around...

The feeling of being a part of a sect where children are playing the music and where people are screeming as soon as a certain kind of behavour was made didn't feel good. The feeling that you had when you were a child and saw Sainta Clause is the same feeling you get when you'll se the geisha (if you were afraid of sainta clause).