I visited Nagasaki on Friday, February 3, taking in the Lantern Festival and some decent Indian food. An annual event, the Nagasaki Lantern Festival is perhaps the only of its kind in all of Japan and is quite a spectacle. Live dance and music ensembles, acrobats, contortionists, and a myriad of lanterns usher in the Chinese New Year in true style. And there are pig heads, sweet succulent pig heads.
A few choice shots...
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The Contortionist Dancing Girls
One of many lanterns inspired by the sea.
Pig heads?!? Uncle PETA does not approve.
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