Monday, March 4, 2013

Honolulu Festival 2013 Y(^^)Y


  This past weekend was the Honolulu Festival, an international scale "Omatsuri" Japan style complete with Mikoshi and Nebuta! The finale is the 2 hour parade with over 40 groups and fireworls from Nagaoka. Enjoy the pictures. (^^)


No parade in Hawaii is complete without the Chinese dragon dance!


Our south Pacific island friends in action!


This was the biggest group from a high school in Japan!  The line was loooong!


Then fun part of the parade is that all sorts of groups get to do their thing!


A new style of Tahitian dance?? 


A jump rope group from Ritsumeikan University.


Go to have your beauty queens. (^^) These two are form Hiroshima.


Local Princesses.  I think Cherry Blossom Pageant


Quite a few groups form the Chinese community.


Nice with the yukata. Also had good rhythm (^^)


The dragon had a tummy ache after eating the traffic light!


Not sure what this group was, but they sure moved a lot!


Nebuta lanterns


Fire works out at the beach.


My favorite shot (^^)


The technicians came all the way from Nagaoka, Japan.




A spectacular finale !!

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