Buddhika Weerasinghe

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Katsuyama Sagicho Festival

A Japanese girl performs taiko drums during the Sagicho festival at Katuyama city, Fukui about 293.97 kilometres(182.66 miles) west Tokyo February 26,2011. Men dress up red kiomono as women and perform taiko drums with children and make dance. The local people of Katsuyama city together mark Sagicho festival last weekend of February in every year and it has more than 300 years history. Pic- Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y9989

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Japanese perform traditional dance and pray rich harvest and happiness

A Japanese man wears traditional mask and costume performs Dengaku and Noh Dance in the Ukann shrine at Mizumi, Ikeda village in Fukui prefecture about 293.97 kilometres (182.66 miles) west Tokyo February 15, 2011.
Villagers of Mizumi, Ikeda wear traditional costumes and masks performing Dengaku and Noh nine dance series end of the winter and before the beginning spring season. According that nine-dance series performers pray to gods of nature and field for a rich harvest and happiness of villagers. Pic-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y9012

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Japanese kitesurfer Seigo Akado

A Japanese kitesuffer Seigo Akado rides snowkiteboard during the training season at open ground in Sakai city , Fukui prefecture about 293.97 kilometres (182.66 miles) west Tokyo, Japan February 6, 2011. Snowkiting is a winter sport where people use power kites to glide on snow. Photo/Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y6830

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Heavy snowfall in Fukui - Japan

Men use the shovel and remove snow at road side at Fukui city about 293.97 kilometres (182.66 miles) west Tokyo, Japan January 31, 2011. Picture-Buddhika Weerasinghe/ Street Photo Gallery.844Y6308

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Children enjoy ski at Country side in Japan.

A child enjoys skiing at village side ski park at Ikeda, Fukui prefecture about 308.82 kilometres (191.89 miles) west Tokyo, Japan on January 23, 2011. That ski site opens until March 2011. Pic- Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y5038

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Traditional way of rice cake make in Japan.

A woman grills Kakimochi, rice cake at traditional way of mochi making house at Heisenji village, Katsuyama about 297 kilometres (184.54 miles) west Tokyo, Japan January 23, 2011.
Kakimochi is a traditional Japanese food which is made of Mochi(Japanese rice cake). They slice Mochi and dry that by hanging near the fire. These Kakimochi, rice cake can eat by baking on the pan or deep-fry with oil. Local women groups continue making kakimochi since 1989 to maintain this traditional food. pic-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y6015

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Winter hits country side in Japan.

A man removes snow from the roof of his house with a shovel at Fukui about 320 kilometers west Tokyo, Japan January 23, 2011. Pic- Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y4869

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White flowers bloom

A tree of covered by snow against the backdrop of sunset at Yokokan garden in Fukui city, about 320 kilometers west Tokyo, Japan. Pic- Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y4286

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Yokokan garden in Fukui

Pond of Yokokan garden, it is a representative garden from the mid-Edo period (1603-1867) how ever site of original garden and building was destroyed by the massive air raid of Fukui City in 1945. Pic-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y4247

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A bird flies over the snow covered tree in Fukui city, Japan January 10, 2011. Pic-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery.844Y8411

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Frozen water droplets fall in to the pond

A frozen water droplets fall in to the pond of Yokokan historical garden in Fukui city, about 320 kilometers west Tokyo, Japan on January 10, 2011.Pic-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y96161

Coming-of-Age Day ceremony in Japan

A Japanese twenty-year-old woman attends the annual Coming-of-Age Day ceremony at Phoenix Plaza in Fukui about 320 kilometers west Tokyo on January 9, 2011. The Coming of Age Ceremony is celebrated on the second Monday of January in Japan and its Japanese name成人の日 Seijin no Hi. All young people who turn twenty years old in this year celebrate on Seijin no hi ceremony.
Twenty is the age considered as the beginning of adulthood and that age is minimum legal age for voting, drinking and smoking. Pic-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery.844Y7795

A Japanese man prepares coffee

A man prepares coffee over the different varieties of coffee boatels at a café in Fukui city about 320 kilometers west Tokyo, Japan on January 4, 2011. Japanese people started to drink coffee about 200 years before and presently one Japanese person drinks about three hundreds coffee cups each year. Holland brought coffee to Japan between the Meji periods (1868-1912). Pic-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y7718

A general view of the Maruoka castle

Japanese man and woman walk pass the Maruoka castle during the heavy snow fall at Sakai city, Fukui about 320 kilometers west Tokyo on January 1, 2011. Maruoka castle was Built by Shibata Katsutoyo, nephew of Shibata Katsuie, in 1576. Pic-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y7385

Japan mark the Year 2011

A Buddhist monk Takahashi Yuho chants and blessing for devotes during the year end annual religious program for celebration to New Year at Daianzenji Buddhist temple in Fukui about 320 kilometers west Tokyo, Japan January 1,2011.pic-Buddhika Weerasinghe/Street Photo Gallery. 844Y6962

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