Animated Highlights of Kin Town's 2015 Mud Festival

Nature Mirai Tanbo Festival

 

 

Call it whatever you like.

  Put a bunch of kids and adults in a flooded field, it becomes a mud festival.

There were the usual festival booths with food and games.

In the shade of one building, plenty of arts and crafts booths were available.

Out for the fun in the sun is where I take the cameras.

 Cold noodles, called Nagashi Somen, attracted quite a crowd.

The food flows down a bamboo pipe and whatever you can catch, you eat, for free.

A few of the more mature festival-goers, demonstrated how to do this race. 

Then, there was no confusion, when it was the children's turn to race in the mud.

There was plenty of parent participation in the mud events.

Sometimes, I think adults have more fun than the children at these festivals.



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2014 Tanbo Festival in Kin Town

 

 

For those who don't already know, a tanbo is a flooded field.

Somebody donates their land for this event during Golden Week.

 Kids love playing games in the mud.

They get to do stuff like slide and splash.

Big people are allowed to have fun in the mud, too.

Sometimes, parents and children participate in relays where they do some crazy stuff in the mud.

There was good, clean fun, away from the flooded fields, too.

Try catching noodles with chopsticks while they are sliding down a bamboo pipe.

This is what's called, Nagashi (flowing) Somen (similar to ramen) but, it's not hot.

Not many noodles make it to the end of the line.

That kid in the red shirt was happy, just catching a few !

Running around, trying to capture all the events at this festival gave me an appetite.

So, while the camera was downloading, I went down the street and grabbed a hamburger.