Saturday, May 27, 2017

Without Heron-Headed Dancers, How Can Any Party Get Started


Tokyo, Japan

Heron-hooded dancers parade during the Sanja Matsuri festival. Over 1.5 million people flock to Tokyo’s Asakusa district during the three-day annual festival, which heralds the coming of summer.

Photograph: Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images


From The Guardian's Twenty Best of the Week but only three were exempt from violent or political content.


While the Rockhouse understands the coolness of wearing a heron head, we don't get the why since what's the inner sense of the heron head; what is its motivation.

Ed:  thanks, Cecil B., but sometimes a bird head is just a bird head.  But they look cool, whatever the reason.

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