A very traditional dance in straw hats, with a mysterious melody. With these dances and music you really know you're at a festival.

THE END.

These guys made some moving melodies, too. 

These kids are incredible. 

It was a small festival but there were a lot of regional dances to enjoy. the atmosphere was great... 

I did manage to sell a couple of these mini-pictures though, at least. so soon to come is my line of postcards...

But in the end it was found that, in the Sakura Matsuri at least, man can indeed live on bread alone... well, cookies and scones anyway! 

We even tried some dynamic sales techniques...

My pictures, carefully printed out and displayed as best as I could- a sarong on a bush. Fortunately, people did look and even ask about them, which made us feel good.

The Sakura Festival

Here we are at the Sakura Matsuri- time to find out... Can man live on bread alone?

(No fancy lenses today, just the 1.3 Mega-Pixel camera in my Vodafone/Sharp V402SH Mobile Phone.)