Quick tiddlybit of whatnot

Ok.....so as a lot of people assume, Japan is a strange place where everything is tiny except Godzilla, Mothera and that group of monsters.....well I'd like to introduce a souped up Japanese minivan :D.









I came across this in a parking lot at an Onsen. I didn't go to an onsen, I just pulled into the parking lot to ask someone for direction to the Noh performance. Luckily as I was asking for directions...and was given directions in complete Japanese-.-....two ladies who could speak English and were also stopping in to ask for directions to the Noh performance swooped in and saved the day!! ^0^.  The two women were actually good friends with some JETs in other areas and could speak very fluently in English and they were super nice!! Talk about a huge life saver ^^. Anyhoo, for those of you who don't know what Noh is, here's a link:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noh

It was a fun show...I have no clue what they were saying, and since it's spoken in an older form of Japanese a lot of Japanese people don't know what's being said either....but they give out a pamphlet, in Japanese that explains the main plot and such.....so it's like watching a ballet, in the sense of you may not know what is being said through the special body movements, but you know the gist of the story.^^.....but I can't read kanji so I have no clue what the plot was exactly, but I can venture a possibly outlandish guess....the first, more comedic performance was about betrayal and I think sake drinking....Two guys tied up one guy, then one of the two tied up the other....then I think the two tied up guys got into the other guys sake and drank stuff and started chanting and then got yelled at and escorted out when the non-tied up guy came back into the room....the other one was more court life style thing and was longer and more serious, and involved a guy w/ a girls mask on dancing and a samurai fighting the main court group while they were in a boat.....I'll post pics to the flickr site later. Now I have to get ready to run and figure out where I have to drop my trash off at b/c they don't collect it here, you have to take it and sort it out at a special place....anyhoo adios for now ^^. and here's a sneak peak pick of the Noh performance: