5 Cool Events at the Nagasaki Kunchi Festival
3. Ship Floats
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Every year at least one of the participating city districts will put on a performance of boat-spinning, revving up the crowd by spinning a large wooden float in a dangerously small space.
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The men in charge of hauling the boat are essentially tasked with being the waves through which it plows, and many will appropriately wear outfits marked by wave designs.
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From their intense expressions, you can tell they really put their backs into it!