Tsukumai acrobatic performance

Sunday July 23, 2017


Ryugasaki

Difficulty 1 Number of Days 1 Ibaraki

Details

Tsukumai acrobatic festival, Sunday July 23rd

Participants are as follows, so far.

From Tsukuba 10
Nobue (Car 5)
Deepa
Efi
Martin
Kostya & Zuhal
Anjasan
Laurence
Ashutosh
Mihoko (Car 7)

To be decided on saturday 3?
Valeriya (+2 persons?) (Car)

Meet at Rygasaki 1
Noboru

Please come to Tsukuba center 20 minutes free parking lot at 16:00 on Sunday !

If you want to join and have a car, contact Mihoko on Saturday.

Description
Let's enjoy japanese traditional local festivel in Ryugasaki which is next to Tsukuba city.

Car based
Difficulty: 1 out of 5
Meeting place: Tsukuba city center free parking lot
Meeting Date and time: 23rd July, Sunday 16:00
Club fee: 100 yen each
Petrol fee: 100 yen each

Tsukumai acrobatic festival has a long history, it begun about 450 years ago in the same place Ryugasaki.
2 guys are selected from local residence every year, then they have practiced for this festival.
They wear green costume with traditional pattern and frog mask.
The acrobatic performance will be perform without rope from the ground to the top of a 14 meter high pole,
then they shoot arrows to sky.
Purpose of this performance is praying for especially rain, rich harvest and good health.

Please check the pictures. https://photos.app.goo.gl/pun7NzltUZfIPt2z2

Schedule: Leave tsukuba at 16:00→Arrive at Ryugasaki 17:00→performance around 17:30-18:30→Look around Festival→Back to Tsukuba 21:00 
In case of rain: it will be cancelled

Organiser

Report

Report of Tsukumai Festival hike @Ryugasaki on 23rd July.

16:00 All participants gathered at 20 minutes Tsukuba free parking lot. Thank you for your cooperation !
16:10 Leave to Ryugasaki
16:50 Arrive at Ryugasaki City government free parking. We could meet Noboru-san there.
17:00 Move to Tsukumai Performance place
17:30 Look at Japanese Drum performance, carrying Omikoshi people
18:15 Start Tsukumai acrobatic performance
19:00 Move to food and bevarage street and go to shrine.
20:45 Leave to Tsukuba
21:30 Back to tsukuba safely

There was still space to park on the time at Ryugasaki, time schedule was no problem.
At tsukumai performance place, we could get good space to look at it, but I should have announced the place to every participant.
Their performance was really thrilling because they did without any rope besides the weather was windy.

There was on another street parallel to performance street, we enjoyed food and drinks and looked at carrying Omikoshi people.
Compared to Tsukumai street, this street was so crowed.
After having enough food. we went back to Tsukuba safely.^^

Location