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The Whirling burning bales festival!

PUBLIC_FLAG_#{@journal.pf_int} RSS feed of sakana's latest journal entries Feb 16th 2010 01:23 festival

I went Hiburikamakura held at kakunodate in Akita (northern part of Japan) where I live.
Hiburikamakura is a traditional festival to pray for good health and safe homes and to thank for a rich harvest.
Participants hold ropes tied to empty bales made of straw,
and ignite the bales, then they whirl the bales above their heads.
You can see many glorious fire whirls in the darkness.

Since I heard that anybody who wanted to could go in for it, I decided to try it.
Before starting whirling, I was a little bit scared.
But once I started, It was much easier than I expected.
So I got elated and whirled faster.

On the way back home, my husband found my hair got burned.(T_T)
And what's more, we all got awful stinky because of the smoke!
Well, I became a real smoked "SAKANA"!

The pictures are my husband and my kids and me.
Feb 16th 2010 12:16 จั๊ก - ジャック -Juk -雅克
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  • Japanese, Mandarin

Hi, Sakana-San!!!

How are you today?

That's sounds interesting. I've never seen about that culture...
Anyway, I wanna try to hold the that rope...
But I hope it will not burned me...
Feb 16th 2010 15:49 mijokijo
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  • Japanese

  • I went Hiburikamakura held at kakunodate in Akita (northern part of Japan) where I live.
  • I went to a Hiburikamakura held at Kakunodate in Akita (northern part of Japan) where I live.
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  • Hiburikamakura is a traditional festival to pray for good health and safe homes and to thank for a rich harvest.
  • Hiburikamakura is a traditional festival to pray for good health and safe homes and to be thankful for a rich harvest. （「Hiburikamakura is a traditional festival...to thank」といったら、「to thank だれか for a rich harvest」といってはいけません。たとえば、「to thank God for a rich harvest」といえる。）
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  • Participants hold ropes tied to empty bales made of straw,
  • Participants hold ropes tied to empty bales made of straw, Good.
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  • and ignite the bales, then they whirl the bales above their heads.
  • and ignite the bales, then they whirl the bales above their heads. Good.
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  • Since I heard that anybody who wanted to could go in for it, I decided to try it.
  • Since I heard that anybody who wanted to could do it, I decided to try it.
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  • Before starting whirling, I was a little bit scared.
  • Before I started whirling, I was a little bit scared.
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  • But once I started, It was much easier than I expected.
  • But once I started, it was much easier than I expected.
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  • So I got elated and whirled faster.
  • So I got excited and whirled faster. （「excited」の方が自然です。）
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  • On the way back home, my husband found my hair got burned.(T_T)
  • On the way back home, my husband found out that my hair got burned.(T_T)
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Haha, that's funny about your hair and the smell! Although, burned hair smells especially bad, doesn't it?

By the way, a "bale" in English is different from how you use it. For example, the only time we use the word "bale" is when we say "bale of hay". "Hay" is straw, but the "bale" is not a container like the things you whirled around your head. The bale IS the straw.

For example, here is a bale of hay: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Round_hay_bale_at_dawn.jpg

In Japanese, what do you call the container that you whirled around?
Feb 18th 2010 12:22 sakana
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  • English

>ジャック
Thank you for the comment!
Actually, a canadian woman was tring it, and she was doing much better than me!

>mijokijo
Thank you for the corrections!
Yes, it does!!!! I was the stinkest person in my family.(>_<)

"たわら（俵）” is what I was trying to say in Japanese.
It is a big solid bag made of straw.
Long time ago, we used to put grains into it.

I have seen bales on the farm when I traveled in canada before.
I did't know it's called bales. Thank you for telling me.(^o^)
sakana
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