Sunday, June 15, 2008

Picture dicussion ! SAMURAI festival



This picture depicts a scene in Japan. As in the foreground, we can see people dressing in samurai costume and as samurai originated from Japan, this picture must be taken in Japan. Also we can see from the picture that this event is happening in the middle of one of the streets in Japan. There are many people surrounding the groups of Samurais , admiring them and at the same time also taking photos.
There must be some kind of Festival going on as nowadays we no longer see people wearing the samurai costume . Also , i thinks that the group of Samurai is putting on a performance. As from the picture , we can see that the samurais are doing different actions. Like the two samurais that are down on the floor and the General Samurai , the one with the Grey outfit , on a battle stance , waving his sword. I can assume that these samurais are very professional as as they are performing , there seems to be no mistake . We can see this from the crowd expression , as most of them are enjoying and focusing on the performance .

Also , from the group of samurais in the foreground , i see no female taking part in the perfromance out of the 5 samurais. Therefore , as samurais is a culture that happens very long ago in Japan , we can see that there is a already sex discrimination during then .
Next is that , from the picture of the crowd, i can see many people wearing a cap . This must be due to the hot weather during that time of the day. However , the Samurais are all fully dressed in their costume , and i think that will be very tiring for them to be performing under such intense weather.
Finally, i think that is good to hold events like this as it can refresh the people's impression of samurais and keep the unique culture remembered . Also , i wished that our country can have our own unique culture , as up to now i do not even know the culture that will represent Singapore and this has prove to be a very sad thing .
THE END

1 comment:

Mr. Lee said...

8 / 12

Be careful; it is mostly likely that these are not true samurais but rather actors engaged. Try to describe their thoughts / emotions about putting up this performance. Also, focus on the people who are fascinated by the spectacle.