Children's festival in Shirakaba Higashi neighborhood association.

  I had forgotton that today was the children's festival in our heighborhood association. In the morning, when I arrived home from walking as far as Kawazoe riverside park, I heard a loud speaker car announcing the opening of the children's festival in the 6 cho me mini park. At the moment, I remembered it was the day of the festival. After having lunch, I hurried to the mini park where the staff members had finished setting up three big tents, and decorated two portable shirines and two big Japanese drums with paper flowers, golden bells, and other ornaments, and were waiting for the children to gather. About 40 children including some preschool children gathered. The children and some parents were divided into two groups, and each group started to parade around the community beating the drums and whistling and shouting "Wasshoi ! wasshowi!"  People were waiting in the front doors to see the parade and donate some money.