Being Black At A Japanese Festival In Sendai | Aoba Matsuri

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The Sendai Aoba Festival originates from the “Sendai Festival” which began in 1655 and was revived in 1985 after 350 years had passed since the death of Lord DATE Masamune.
The scale of the festival has been expanded year by year as a community festival that everyone can participate in and enjoy. This is thanks to a folk performing art “Suzume Odori” arranged to be more easily danceable for everyone and introduced into the festival, after being passed down among the descendants of masons who were involved in establishing the Aoba Castle starting in 1600.
Today, nearly 20,000 citizens participate in the festival over two days, and it has almost 1 million visitors.

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oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] thank you so much for joining I really appreciate a l and support as always and if it’s your first time seeing me I am nappy a ghanian living here in Japan go ahead and hit the Subscribe button and hit the Bell to get a notification anytime I post a video so you will be the first to watch all my videos let’s just jump right into the video cuz it’s a festival week here in suai I’m super happy to be welcome with a beautiful colorful Festival here in sunai so this Festival is called ala Festival it is celebrated here in sind where it originated from it was first celebrated in in 1655 that was the 17th century and it died off after some time and it came back again after 305 years later that’s when they revived the whole alova festival in syai now it is the most colorful and beautiful Festival celebrated here in syai I can’t just wait to go and see it for myself I know you can wait too cuz it’s a beautiful and amazing welcome for me and for you on my YouTube channel [Applause] [Music] the skill of this Festival has expanded year by year as a community Festival that everyone can participate in and enjoy this is thanks to the folk of Performing Arts suzumi odori suzumi odori means the spal dance yes arranged to be more easily dancable for everyone and introduced into the festival after being passed down among the descendants of the Masons who were involved in establishing H Castle starting in 1600s today nearly 20,000 citizens participate in this Festival over two days today almost everyone in Senai participates in this Festival about 20,000 people come together to do the suzumi odori the Spyro dance yes it’s so easy and everyone can die [Applause] got it got [Music] it [Music] for spe spee spee [Music] [Music] [Applause] in May the season suai becomes the most beautiful city of trees with every zel Tree in fresh Greenery one of the historical Festival in Cinda [Music] the sender AA Festival is held to represent the exceptionally subsc Estis inherited from the date Clan the eve of this Festival is called yoi Matsuri and has vibrant atmosphere with many citizens group dancing the gorgeous suai suzumi odori the main day of the festival is known as on matsin so many food vendors around I was so surprised like guys I was so surprised to see that much variety that Cai had to offer maybe Japan as a whole cuz most of these Foods I think or people kept saying that you find most of these Foods only in syai so most of these perect have their specialty when it comes to food so there was so much to eat there was so many vendors there were foods that I’ve never seen before there were so many food vendors around this Festival actually brought a lot of members on site and because it was my first time I didn’t even know what to choose from and there were so many people around town I think it brings about 20,000 people together just for the dance so just imagine the people who are not participating but they are there to watch so there were so many cubes around and I didn’t know what to eat but I came across this amazing fried noodles which was my first time too and I I tried it it was good I had it with meat and it was so good so I wanted to try they had this specialty I forgot the name but I’ll put it on the screen for you guys to see which I wanted to try I couldn’t get a chance to try but next time once the festival is held once a year I have to wait a whole year to try this food again yes I wouldn’t go and try it anywhere but I’ll try it right in the festival season I over Festival that makes it taste so good for me yes so I can’t just wait to try it again and and it was so amazing to the fact that there were so many people walking around so many things to do kids playing and even kids were participating it was so amazing it was so colorful beautiful but I I think it’s kind of a festival that aligns with this Festival in Ghana called Anor in Tak the western region it’s also held once a year during December and it’s so amazing I think it’s the same cuz UNC course they dance to a song they play music and the winner gets a gift or a prize you know and here in Japan too saai the whole group gets a prize for uh good dressing for the singing the dance you know they get their prices too so I think it’s kind of the same but a whole different people you know so that is it I enjoyed myself and it was really amazing I’ve never seen anything like this before and I hope to to be prepared next year to be able to to to even participate if I can yes so I’ll just prepare myself ask questions and then I will join this part of the festival Al festival foods that I would love to try next year in May the 3D Saturday and Sunday of May that’s when IA festivals are celebrated here in s yes foods that I love to try is the beef tongue they call it gut G is the beef tongue I would love to try that the other food that I would like to try which I have tried before but I would love to try at the festival is the hot or warm Ramen warm Ramen and they call it Shi shoi woman shos woman it’s hot or warm Ramen I would love to try that to n c squ c Square I want to try that too I want to try C Square um I think I’ve tried squid in Ghana but I want to know how it tastes here in Japan especially at the festival also I would love to try Siri Siri is um um is a Japanese uh parsley which uh it’s like vegetables yeah yeah I would like to try that too yes and uh Haro mesh I want to try the Haro Mesi so it’s like uh it’s a local rice dish with this fish eggs or something on it um I’ll look for it on Google and tell you guys I would like to try that also like to try the sasako it’s like a fish which I want to try as well so it’s like fish paste something like that yeah I wanted to try that too yeah I want to eat everything I want to eat everything and the specialty that I was talking about is Miagi Sashimi I want to try that I really want to try that yeah it has yeah it was a beautiful festival and I really appreciate the fact that I was able to see it by myself not on someone’s screen so if you get a chance to come to Japan please do well to [Music] attain it was an amazing Festival I really appreciate [Music] myself woo it was an amazing Festival I really appreciate the fact that I was able to see myself and not watching it on the TV or the internet yes so whenever you find yourself in May here in Japan please do well to attend the iell festival it’s always celebrated in the third week of May so the third Sunday and then the third Saturday is celebrated twice so the Saturday and then the Sunday in May yes which is amazing you love it so colorful so beautiful please leave in the comment section how amazing or if you’ve attended the festival before here in Japan and tell me how it feels like cuz I can’t wait to prepare myself really well to attend next one which will be next year may definitely I will have to come I have to participate as well as I said earlier on I can’t just wait 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