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The other day, we visited the percussion instrument professional manufacturer "KOROGISHA co. ltd." famous for marimbas and xylophones.
They make consistently the optimized sound plates from raw wood.
The president explained each process to us personally, and we toured the inside of the factory.
This is a sliced chip of wood at the time of processing sound plate for marimba.
I tried to hit it with a finger. It was a very good sound.

For over 300 years, the people of Katsuyama have celebrated the coming of spring with the Sagicho festival.
Wearing traditional women’s red kimono slip, children and adults dance atop the 12 yagura (scaffold towers) that are put up around town, festively performing to the beat of the taiko drum accompanied by shamisen, flute, and gong bells.
The close of Sagicho is celebrated with giant dondoyaki (bonfires), which serve as a prayer toward no fires in the coming year, as well as abundant harvests.
It is believed that a person who has warmed up by the fire and eaten rice cake toasted over it shall suffer no disease and become healthy.