These photos were taken agessssss ago during Sendai's junior high school baseball tournament in June. It was the middle of the rainy season and everyone was most anxious about the weather.
A week before the tournament students started hanging up these awesome ghosts called Teru-teru-bozu in the classrooms to ward off rain.
Here is a translation of a very famous Japanese nursery rhyme about them:
Teru-teru-bozu, teru bozu
Do make tomorrow a sunny day
Like the sky in a dream sometime
If it's sunny I'll give you a golden bell
Teru-teru-bozu, teru bozu
Do make tomorrow a sunny day
If you make my wish come true
We'll drink lots of sweet rice wine
Teru-teru-bozu, teru bozu
Do make tomorrow a sunny day
But if the clouds are crying
Then I shall snip your head off
The weather turned out to be glorious (thanks to these little guys perhaps?).
And we came first!
おめでとござみあす
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