Pictures taken at the sports festival in Goshoura.

Total 12 pictures

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Every year, Goshoura has a town sports festival, in which the entire town, divided into 5 teams based on place of residence, has a little olypmics-style sports festival. My team from my area, Arakuchi, won. The week before the practice, we had practice every night. I ran 100m and 800m.

This picture was taken at a practice for the sports festival.

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Arakuchi doing tug of war.

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The teams are distinguished by their colored headbands (mine was white) but for this particular relay, one of the teams decided to have their runners dress up like "ninjas".

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Arakuchi in the jump rope contest. In case you can't see, there's about 20 people all jumping over the same rope.

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Part of the sports festival (and just about every festival) is some kind of dance.

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This festival also had some kind of costume contest parade-type thing, which was very interesting as you can see:

My personal favorite

The closest thing I've seen to cosplay since I got to Japan

This one is Hoshou in the costume parade.

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Some of my students at the sports festival after party.

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