Soon after the big earthquake on 3.11, Tomioka Hachimangu shrine in Koto-ku, Tokyo, decided to cancel this year's Fukagawa Festival, which is one of the big three festivals in Tokyo and held only once every three years.
But local people are not convinced why it has to be cancelled. Cancellation doesn't make sense, they think.
As the Festival attracts half a million onlookers, we could use the chance to help such activities as fundraising for the people affected and also to help revitalising the economy, their website says.
They have started collecting signatures appealing for holding the Festival. If you agree with them, you can contribute by sending e-mail to : fukagawa_2011@mail.goo.ne.jp, with the subject "Kaisai Sando"(in favor of holding the festival) , and your name and address (only state / prefecture is OK) in message body.
Fukagawa Festival: Held every three years in August, also called "water-throwing festival", as spectators throw water on the mikoshi carriers. More than 50 spectacular Mikoshis, or mobile shrines, parade through the town with Tokyo's traditional calling out "Wa-sshoi". The water helps both cooling them down and making people more and more excited.
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