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What is this Yamakasa?

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What is this Yamakasa?

This report about the festival shows the Hakata-Gion-Yamakasa as seen by foreigners. It was written by our australian intern Marsha during the festivities in 2011.

Hello~ I’m a 24 year old graphic design student（※当時） from Australia. Although I was born in Russia, I only speak English and Japanese. After spending 2 years on a working holiday in Hokkaido, I am doing an internship in Fukuoka city and hope to work in Japan in the future. I love hakata ramen and nigirizushi, but can’t eat motsunabe or yakizakana.

Report-0(Prologue):

It’s Matsuri Time !! …?

For the next month, it will be my job to report and write about the Yamakasa festival as it passes through this part of town and the company I’m interning at has a lot to do with its promotion.

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Yamakasa History & Origins Explained

Although Fukuoka city stretches out all across Hakata Bay area these days, by far the oldest part of the city is the area now known as the “Hakata Ward”.

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Jun 28: Building the Kazariyama

At the start of my shift after lunch today as the weather warmed up, we ducked outside to watch the first pre-event on the Yamakasa festival calendar.

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The Hakata Dolls: Kakiyama and Kazariyama’s Grandeur!

Have you ever wondered what exactly they make these things out of though? I asked around and a lot of people seemed to bring up Hakata Dolls, so I thought I’d cover a little bit about them.

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July 01: The Festival Begins! Yamakasa’s Grand Opening

It’s officially open! From 5 am this morning, after having their tools blessed, the Yamakasa volunteers were out in the streets of old Hakata town putting up leaves and marking out the course of the Oiyama race.

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Hakata Yamakasa Festival: Main Event & Kakiyama, Kazariyama Map

I picked up this book at one of the Kazariyama in Kawabata arcade.It’s a very handy book! It has schedules, maps and everything you need to know about what’s going on.

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Hakata Yamakasa Festival 2011: Event Schedule, Nagare Start Times & Maps

Hakata Gion Yamakasa Events Schedule & Explanation

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July 01-03: Kids Yamakasa!

Although there are no official festival events between the opening of the Kazariyama on the 1st and the first runs on the 9th and 10th of July, in fact quite a few things seem to be happening through the festival period if you know where to look for them. For example!

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Hakata Yamakasa: Rites & Rituals

Hakata Yamakasa could be about a lot of things to you. Cool Japanese Cultureness, man butts, great big floats being pulled around, something to see while in Hakata, ancient tradition…

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Chasing Mountains in July 12

The Kakiyama have been run around town twice now (3 times for the Visiting Kakiyama participants) and today is the day of the big practise, the Oiyama Narashi!

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July 12: Oiyama Narashi!

The big practise run! Time to practise running…It was a fine and sunny day for the Oiyama Narashi. After following the Yamakasa around for a few practise runs it was a strange feeling to now see tour groups, old people with cameras and proper news reporters and camera crews camped out around the place.

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July 12: Narashi Cont’d (and some post-Oiyama updates)

After a long and early morning of running around, as Hakata went on with the daily business of business me and coworkers crashed on our various couches/beds for the day, to return in the afternoon and do some necessary updates.

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July 15: The big run!! Hakata Yamakasa Oiyama & other highlights

It was a full moon lit night, the streets eerily empty and yet strangely not when I left home in Yakuin to bike through Tenjin, then to my office in Gokusho. There were taiko drums and army-like shouts in the air, coming from the vague direction of Reisen Park and the Kushida Shrine…

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