Stumbling onto Japanese-iness

After the rains of the past two days, this morning the weather was beautiful. I came home from the Halloween party in the morning and after a few hours more of sleep, I went outside. I had been sporadically hearing some traditional Japanese music.

I started walking around, eventually heading in the general direction of the music. I discovered a little festival going on in a bank parking lot. There were food stalls hawking both cooked food and fresh produce. I ended up buying 5 little eggplants for 100yen.

The music turned out to be coming from a stage. I saw several traditional fan dances. Most of them were performed by older women in beautiful kimonos. However, one dance was done by three tiny and adorable little girls. They kept looking at each other for cues on what to do. There were also performers who played and sang traditional Japanese music.

Stumbling on these kinds of things is one of the parts of living abroad that I love.