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recolle2018-03-05 11:30 am
complementing) wrote in recolle2018-03-05 11:30 am
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semi-open || another year older
WHO: Minato, Minako, and Minato's friends!
WHERE: Koyama Shrine, aka that shrine I made up before.
WHEN: March 5th
WHAT: A trip the the local shrine for Hinamatsuri festivities, to celebrate the Arisato twins' (but mostly Minato's) birthday.
WARNINGS: None foreseen!
DEDICATED TO THE LADIES
[Hinamatsuri is Girl's Day, so there's noticeably a lot of young elementary school girls dressed in tiny and cute kimonos hanging around with their parents. It's not too crowded or noisy, though, given that it's a smaller holiday compared to Boy's Day, so there's plenty of room to walk around without getting jostled.
Some attractions of note:
• the usual food stands, with yakisoba and takoyaki on sale, as well as grilled meat and seafood, karaage, chocolate bananas, crepes, and melon bread.
• a hot amazake (non-alcoholic sake) stand that's selling large bottles of it and handing out free samples. Or you can try the alcoholic version, just show your ID first.
• a shaved ice stand that's hosting a challenge: eat one giant shaved ice in three minutes, and you'll earn a free t-shirt and $10 voucher for its main dessert storefront. Because of how cold it is, only a handful of people have successfully completed the challenge today.
• the ever enticing fortune stand, where you can stick a dollar into the donation box to get a random fortune in a box.
• the main offertory box at the main shrine. Throw in a coin and pray for one of the women in your life.
• various doll sets with various numbers of tiers on display along the walkways. All of them say very clearly: DO NOT TOUCH. You're allowed to take pictures, though, and read some of the accompanying descriptions of which doll represents what.
The main draw of the event is a large station where visitors can make dolls out of provided paper or straw. Traditionally, these dolls would be placed on a boat and floated down a river in a nagashibina ceremony, symbolizing the carrying away of sins and impurities. But since there aren't any nearby rivers that don't require a hike into the woods, the shrine is instead symbolically floating them down one of the long channels of (perfectly clean!) well water in the back garden. Visitors can follow their boat along a designated walkway until it reaches its destination if they'd like.]
WHERE: Koyama Shrine, aka that shrine I made up before.
WHEN: March 5th
WHAT: A trip the the local shrine for Hinamatsuri festivities, to celebrate the Arisato twins' (but mostly Minato's) birthday.
WARNINGS: None foreseen!
DEDICATED TO THE LADIES
[Hinamatsuri is Girl's Day, so there's noticeably a lot of young elementary school girls dressed in tiny and cute kimonos hanging around with their parents. It's not too crowded or noisy, though, given that it's a smaller holiday compared to Boy's Day, so there's plenty of room to walk around without getting jostled.
Some attractions of note:
• the usual food stands, with yakisoba and takoyaki on sale, as well as grilled meat and seafood, karaage, chocolate bananas, crepes, and melon bread.
• a hot amazake (non-alcoholic sake) stand that's selling large bottles of it and handing out free samples. Or you can try the alcoholic version, just show your ID first.
• a shaved ice stand that's hosting a challenge: eat one giant shaved ice in three minutes, and you'll earn a free t-shirt and $10 voucher for its main dessert storefront. Because of how cold it is, only a handful of people have successfully completed the challenge today.
• the ever enticing fortune stand, where you can stick a dollar into the donation box to get a random fortune in a box.
• the main offertory box at the main shrine. Throw in a coin and pray for one of the women in your life.
• various doll sets with various numbers of tiers on display along the walkways. All of them say very clearly: DO NOT TOUCH. You're allowed to take pictures, though, and read some of the accompanying descriptions of which doll represents what.
The main draw of the event is a large station where visitors can make dolls out of provided paper or straw. Traditionally, these dolls would be placed on a boat and floated down a river in a nagashibina ceremony, symbolizing the carrying away of sins and impurities. But since there aren't any nearby rivers that don't require a hike into the woods, the shrine is instead symbolically floating them down one of the long channels of (perfectly clean!) well water in the back garden. Visitors can follow their boat along a designated walkway until it reaches its destination if they'd like.]