April 13th and 14th was the Japan Festival in our city. I ended up attending on Saturday since the Houston Lolita Community was asked to put on a Kawaii Fashion Show and I wanted to support them.
There were so many people everywhere. This event has really grown so much from when it was first started in 1993 ^^
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| Lots of trees so you could easy find shade from the sun |
They had lots of events going on but since I came late I didn't get a chance to see everything,
but I did catch part of the Cosplay contest
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| Epic Cosplay, and it was so hot out so he gets double props for wearing it for so long. He was also one of the winners |
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| Some of the other winners (Tamaki was in character through the whole event which was awesome (swoon)) |
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| Cosplayers up on stage |
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| Woodlands HS Japanese Club doing the Soran Dance |
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| The dance moves depict ocean waves, fishermen dragging nets, pulling ropes and lifting luggage over their shoulders. During regular intervals of the dance, the words: "DOKKOISHO!" "DOKKOISHO!" "SORAN!" "SORAN!" Are called. Those words were used in the past to encourage the fisherman during their work. |
Afterwards HLC put on the Kawaii Fashion Show. You can see my pictures
here
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| Okinawan Drum Dance about to start |
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| Everyone did an excellent performance and you can tell they took it serious but still enjoyed themselves. |
We left not too longer after since it was hot and we got hungry again.
And this was my outfit for the day. My first attempt at Punk Lolita. I really liked it ^^
I hope to attend again next year, but maybe earlier so I can see more of it <3
