Jeffrey Jones

Pictures from the Ieyasu Tokugawa Parade in Okazaki on the 5th March 2009.

The Ieyasu Tokugawa Parade commemorates the battle of Sekigahara which cemented the rise of the First of the Tokugawa Shoguns. It is held yearly at Okazaki (The town of Ieyasu Tokugawa’s birth) and students from the Yamasa school are invited to take part.

Because I was a muppet I forgot to put the memory card in my camera so all these lovely pictures were taken by a fellow Yamasa student.

• Samurai Fonz
  
• Awwww
  
• Aw yea
  
• Only the best
  
• Friends and Allies
  
• More munchkins
  
• Our group
  
• Don’t let the hair fool you
  
• Two Yamasa students
  
• Damn!
  
• Life size!
  
• More helmets
  
• What posture!
  
• Volunteer ninjas
  
• The three muska…wait
  
• Another group
  
• Old style armour
  
• Boy Meets Girl
  
• Our mighty standard bearers
  
• The group…minus me
  
• The group…plus me
  
• Everybody
  
• Fuelling up
  
• Paris fashion
  
• Yes, we couldn’t dress ourselves
  
• Sneaky!
  
• Ninja!
  
• Torture
  
• Mental preparation
  
• You do realise
  
• Don’t worry, be happy
  
• Could be Raideen
  
• Cool as a cucumber
  
• Woah
  
• Passing the time
  
• They certainly look the part
  
• Yamasa REPRESENT!
  
• Yaritai Spearmen
  
• Wait, what?!
  
• Ooooooh
  
• Like I needed another flag
  
• More helpers
  
• Old and new
  
• NO!
  
• Foreigners in armour
  
• The main shrine
  
• Notice the thumb
  
• The Purply group
  
• Good view of the armour
  
• GUNS?!
  
• Guns, swords and (some) girls.
  
• General shot
  
• Arguement
  
• Colourful
  
• Gun vs. Sword
  
• The final defence
  
• Shrine…
  
• Ni-Ten Ichi Ryu
  
• Again…
  
• Revenge!
  
• Essential Strategy
  
• Banners flapping in the wind
  
• More waiting
  
• Shrine Gate
  
• Cherry trees
  
• Miss…somewhere
  
• Remember…
  
• Dignitaries
  
• The field of battle
  
• So many flags
  
• I have no idea what it says
  
• Horse Archer
  
• Make that two horse archers
  
• Groovy
  
• I heart horses
  
• Family
  
• More colours
  
• MORE colours
  
• Not a Beefeater
  
• Fireworks
  
• Competition
  
• More cherry trees
  
• ‘Beautiful’ Geisha
  
• Returning…somewhere
  
• More Geisha
  
• More Misses
  
• Even more misses
  
• And MORE misses
  
• Final photos
  
• and MORE photos
  
• The helmet returns