Sunday, September 13, 2009

Guiding JICA Participants around Kamakura--One from Tuvalu


[Date and Time] Sunday, September 13, at 11:00~16:40
[Spots] Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, Hasedera Temple, Kotokuin Temple (Great Buddha)
[Visitors] 25 JICA participants from 16 countries, with 5 from Myanmar, 2 each from China, Thailand, Argentina, Cambodia, Ukraine, and 1 each from Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Tuvalu, Armenia, Colombia, Bolivia, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Iran
[Attendants] 19 KSGG members and 2 observers

As it was the day before the Great Autumnal Festival in Kamakura, we happened to see portable shrines parade along the street on the way from Hasedera Temple to Kotokuin Temple. They were carried by buckish men shouting “Wasshoi! Wasshoi!“ at a time. All of the participants took pictures of those young men in happi coats. Also, among the participants, there was a female visitor from Tuvalu in the South Pacific Ocean this time. She said, “I came to Japan for the first time.”