Day 5
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What's this? Fukagawa Hachiman Festival photos by Philbert Ono. Held in mid-August in Koto Ward, Tokyo, this is the festival's full-scale version held once every three years (1996, 1999, 2002, etc.).

Joint Procession of Portable Shrines
Aug. 18, 1996

View from behind the "water truck." This goes on for about 15 seconds. The truck is refilled with a fire hose. All in the name of purification. I wish they could do this to some of our Japanese politicians (the scandal-tainted ones).

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