Figure 1.0 At the entrance to the stadium.Yay! Bon Odori was awesome! Last Saturday three members and I went down to Shah Alam stadium to celebrate one of Japanese' prominent festival! Bon Odori (odori means dance) is their traditional practice and culture in celebrating the deaths and soothing the souls of their anchestors. Of course, I was there purely for culture sake and the food!
Figure 1.1 From left: Yee Jin, Xiao Jie and Yen Lu.
Figure 1.2 Pic with interesting character. More pics at our forum! http://nihonnosekai.forumotion.net/The other three were Yee Jin, Xiao Jie and Yen Lu (Yellow). Initially there were 17 signed up but due to transportation difficulties, only four of us went. The other four went by themselves. Many Japanese were there wearing yukata (summer wear/summer version of kimono). They sold many food, some can be obtain from our local sushi king. The ice-creams were authentics!
The gate opens at 5pm but by 5:15pm, the stadium wepre packed with thousand over people. The atmosphere were breath taking! The dance was divided into four set and repeated three rounds with short break in between. The steps were simple but it was the fact that thousand over people were moving together at the same pace (except some sesat fellas) which made it so grand and amazing.
I surely have enjoyed the trip and we will organized a better trip next year. This event is to honour the Japanese' anchestors (usually held on 13th July in Japan for three days). Therefore as respect, no cosplaying or gothic lolita dress code. That will be an insult.
