Omikoshi @Ome

I'm staying at my parents' house in Ome with my daughter since it's "Golden Week" (a series of national holidays in Japan) now. And today we have a traditionall festival of Ome.

Like many other small town in Japan, population of young people has been diminishing year by year. In the past, many young men participated in Omikoshi (a wooden house with wheels which people pull and move around the town), but today I saw few young males there.

However, according to my mother, young women love Happi (traditional Japanese cloth for festivals) and are willing to participate in Omikoshi because they can wear Happi when they pull it. Actually, I did see many young females wearing Happi.