From the sound of it, that was an ee ja nai ka festival.
[ Hopefully the ghostly voice speaking up out of nowhere isn't too startling. (Or, you know, nowhere-ish. One might be able to catch a vague image of the speaker in the nearest reflective surface.) ]
A form of celebration popular in Japan during the transition between the Edo and Meiji periods (1867-1868). These festivals were characterized by spontaneity and anarchic merrymaking, during which social customs and common ideas of propriety were ignored. They are understood to have constituted a form of protest or complaint toward the declining government of the time.
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[ Hopefully the ghostly voice speaking up out of nowhere isn't too startling. (Or, you know, nowhere-ish. One might be able to catch a vague image of the speaker in the nearest reflective surface.) ]
A form of celebration popular in Japan during the transition between the Edo and Meiji periods (1867-1868). These festivals were characterized by spontaneity and anarchic merrymaking, during which social customs and common ideas of propriety were ignored. They are understood to have constituted a form of protest or complaint toward the declining government of the time.
[ thanks, Nanopedia ]