Kabuki Street Koinobori Matsuri May 13

[Izumi Takamine]

This friday, May 13th Kabuki Street with help from the Zama Shrine will celebrate the conclusion of Golden Week with the fourth annual tradition of the Koinobori Matsuri. Halyards strung across the stretch of canal that marks Kabuki Street's northern boundary will be decorated with festive koinobori, kite-like banners in colorful fabrics printed to resemble carp. During this festival of flying fish, Visitors are welcome to turn in their own banner to be displayed for the duration of the weekend, and prefabricated koinobori as well as DIY kits to fashion them are available at the JUSCO department store and many pop up street vendor stalls all around Kabuki Street. The local superstition is that to add embroidery of one's own family crest to the pattern of the banner to be flown brings good luck for the rest of the year.


A selection of koinobori in flight!

The party begins in the afternoon, and will continue into the night with music, fire works and food stalls serving up festival favorites like yakisoba, ikayaki and shaved ice. Delinquents will all be on their best behavior (relatively speaking), and Kabuki's renowned security team, the Shinsengumi will be seen on horseback patrolling the vicinity to ensure no redcap invasions spoil the fun.



picturesque scenic Kabuki Street at night!


(feel free to post outfits, pictures of the banner your character would like flown, descriptions of family crests included, or just a note saying they were there here in this thread! while there is no live event planned, feel free to play into this in #the-docks channel!)

[PC]

Izumi and Na-rae were initially planning to wear matching yukata along with Mini Lisa, but Mini Lisa vetoed that idea and said that she wanted to attend the festival matching outfits with her best friend, Myia Kubo. So Izumi settled on a sky blue yukata to fit the spring weather and flying fish theme while Na-rae sported a fashionable hanbok.

After enjoying the afternoon games with the Kubos Izumi was pleased that Lisa declared that she wanted a mask to add to her collection, and got a pair so that their fox masks matched at least. Later, she took the carp banner that the Takamine family had made including their family crest to the shrine to be flown with the others.

Izumi's attire.


Na-rae's attire.

[Hyejin Ri]

Hye-jin was excited about the Koinobori festival even though she had to work, especially looking forward to riding a horse as her captain had decided that riding would be the most efficient way to effect security patrols with the extra crowds in the neighborhood. What she hadn't counted on was that the horse provided to her seemed to hate her and refused to permit her to ride, repeatedly attempting to bite or kick the half dokkaebi. Luckily her partner Yuri's horse was more even tempered and so Hye-jin rode double behind Yuri for the duration of the festival, both keeping an alert watch for any threats to Kabuki's festivalgoers.

Since they were on patrol for the Kabuki Shinsemgumi, both Hye-jin and Yuri wore the symbolic haori that mirrored the Kabuki security force's historical Terran namesake.

[Kaede]

Though Kaede didn't have a family crest exactly, she still flew a hand colored pink and blue koinobori from the Only Club's renovated gas station clubhouse. To match it for the festival, she donned a blue with pink accented yukata and, of course, blue and pink sunglasses.

[Death Knell]

It wasn’t far from Domus to Kabuki Street, and Ettyn never missed a festival if she could help it. While the de la Rose family did not have a crest per se, she used one of the provided kits to recreate their banner to the best of her ability, and flew it proudly:



Ettyn made sure to sample a little of everything before she left. Especially the ikayaki - good luck for an upcoming kraken fight.

[Meru Yamane]

Meru found a suitable haori at Yuko's antique shop, and hurried along to the festival with her Only Club friends. She had fun watching Kaede fly the koinobori from the gas station, and hurried to buy a kit to fashion her own. She also lacked a family crest, but she found a book in the KSCS library which illustrated the Yamana Clan's mon, and decided that was close enough. So she added it to the squid koinobori she built from the kit. She had several servings of shaved ice, and so by evening her mouth was stained a bright shade of blue.

[Takajin]

The Zama Shrine was busy during the morning of the festival festival as children and adults alike enjoyed the many games and events; a few being kingyo sukui (goldfish scooping), shateki (gun shooting) and her personal favorite yo-yo tsuri (yo-yo fishing). Jin took on the role of announcer as she walked about with a headset on, directing guests to the games and generally hyping things up!

Around mid-day would be when she exchanged the shrine maiden attire with yukata and quickly went to meet up with her friends! Her stomach growling like crazy by then so she was sure to grab and snack on as many treats as she could get her hands on and had no issue with stealing seconds from her friends share.

[BardGallant]

The Minister of Culture dropped in early with the Minister of Technology on his arm, and together the Double Dukes Drhys strolled through Kabuki Street to immerse themselves in the festival for the length of the day. Dris had convinced Rhys to wear matching haoris, since they had both acquired the same one from the Zama Shrine at the start of the year. This was a perfect opportunity to show them off! They were still working on a family crest, and so decided on purchasing a pair of prefabs from JUSCO in their respective favorite colors to hang together this year. The bard and his beau mingled happily, pausing for autographs and to gossip with friends wherever opportunities arose.