Tadaima!

means "just now"



I followed the sound of Taiko drums back from the coin-laundry, to discover them wheeling one of the festival floats out of its house!


I must have looked serious while jumping around taking photos, becase they gave me what appears to be the equivalent of a press pass - giving me permission to get right up close to the float, and in the action to take pics...


To turn them, they put a huge jack underneath, and magic feet appear from the float, and turn the jack handle till the float is almost off the ground, then all the folks pulling the ropes pull it around till it is pointing where they want it to go. Everyone is coordinated by the taiko drums - different rythms mean different manoevers.