"obon" is the period of remembering our ancestors. We dance around the "yagura" (building seen at right side of the photo) and call the spirits of our dead grandfathers, grandmothers or the ancestors.
This is an attraction of catching goldfishes. We buy a dipper of paper and catch little goldfishes with it. The paper tears easily in the water so it is difficult to catch fishes. We have to move fishes quickly to the wooden bowl to catch more fishes.
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This is a cookie of the bill of10,000 yen with the face of Ookuma Shigenobu (Japanese educator, politician). This cookie is sold only in the office of the ministry of Finance.
I found this penguin at Akihabara, the electronic town of Tokyo. There are countless shop of electronic parts and computers... This penguin is well-known in Japan as a commercial chartacter of digital movie recorder.