竹灯り bamboo lights

8月中旬。In the middle of August,

これが見たくて、仕事を早めに切り上げて、一番町四丁目商店街へ寄り道しました。

just wanted to see this view, I walked to the shopping street after my job.

ほんと、来てよかった。
I was glad to see these peaceful lights.

壱弐参横丁の入り口 entrance of Iroha Shopping Street

サンモール一番町内にある壱弐参横丁の入り口。七夕期間中に撮ったもの。

Iroha Shopping Street, midtown area in Sendai.

七夕写真2 Sendai Tanabata 2012 Part2

今さらですが、七夕写真つづき。(現像できてなかったフィルムが1本ありました)
Another Tanabata pictures.

残暑お見舞い申し上げます。
Is your country still hot now? If it is, take care of youself :)

すいか watermelon

今年初すいかは尾花沢産。

The first watermelon I ate in this summer.

今週半ばあたりから時折空気が秋っぽく感じるような。
もうそろそろ夏らしい夏も終わりかな。

I felt a little bit cool air outside this week.
Feeling of fall coming.
Hot summer is starting to leave from our land.

仙台七夕まつり 2012 Sendai Tanabata Festival 2012 (35pictures)

真夏の仙台といえば、毎年8月6日〜8日に開催される仙台七夕まつり☆彡

Summer is a season for Sendai Tanabata Festival ☆彡
Tanabata is celebrated in many east-asian countries includes China.

It's held in July 7, in many places in Japan
but in Sendai it's held in every August 6 - 8 based on Chinese calendar.



仙台駅ペデストリアンデッキより。
Looking above from the pedestrian deck near Sendai Station.

 アーケードへ。Inside the shopping arcade.

In Tanabata, we make wishes, write it down on a paper 

and put it on the bamboos or decorations like this.

(left: I wish the disaster-affected cities and the people's mental recovery.)

(right: I wish the people in Fukushima can restart their agricultural works.)

私が応援しているJ1ベガルタ仙台の吹き流し。
ちなみに、このクラブ名も仙台七夕由来。

This one was set by Vegalta Sendai, the professional football club in Sendai,
and its name "Vegalta" came from Tanabata story,
Orihime(female, star of Vega) and Hikoboshi(male, star of Altair) only can meet once a year, day of Tanabata.

こっちはGINZA TANAKAさん(スポンサー様)前の金の短冊。

Vegalta's sponsor GINZA TANAKA(jewelry shop)'s golden wishing paper.
(left: Everyone's happiness)
(front: Vegalta Sendai's victory!!)

ノーモア ヒロシマ、ノーモア ナガサキを祈っての千羽鶴。

Thousands of paper cranes wishing for "No more Hiroshima" and "No more Nagasaki"

August 6, 1945 is when atomic bomb was dropped to Hiroshima City and

August 9, 1945 Nagasaki City.

眼鏡屋さんの吹き流し。Decorations by glasses shop.

仙台名物なだけあって、笹かま屋さんや仙台名菓のお店は力入れてきます。
Sasa Kamaboko(kind of surimi, Sendai's special products) shops always decorate very beautiful and accurate one.

吹き流しを支える滑車たち。Pulleys for the big decorations.