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Plum Blossoms, Green Tea, and Pretty Geisha – Ume Matsuri in Kyoto

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

To celebrate plum blossoms and Tenjin-sama, the god of learning, a festival is held at Kitano Tenmangu Shrine in Kyoto where geisha serve visitors matcha green tea.

Since it was my birthday I thought I would have tea with those geisha as one does.

Kitano Tenmangu Shrine is a beautiful shrine especially during Plum Blossom season and when the geisha come but it hides a dark past of political manipulation, fear, guilt, and the need for appeasement of a vengeful spirit.

Samurai Dave’s 2008 In Review – Travels, Events, and Festivals

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

2008 was a busy year for this wayward wanderer though I didn’t travel much abroad due to the high fuel surcharge. I did however travel a fair bit around Japan going to a number of festivals. This is a photo montage of my experiences.

http://samuraidave.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/samurai-daves-2008-in-review-travels-events-and-festivals/

Roving Ronin Report Montage

Thursday, July 24th, 2008
This is a montage trailer for the Roving Ronin Report. In a number of videos I use part of the music as an introduction piece with rotating scenes. This video is "currently" on Current TV: http://www.current.tv/ And is up ... [Continue reading this entry]