Massimo Colombo

I have been accredited as a photographer to cover the Narita Drum Festival.

This festival is one of the biggest drum festivals in Japan and it is opened at the Naritasan Shinshoji Temple and on the Omote Sando Street in Narita, the Chiba region, Japan.

The Narita Drum Festival begins, every year in April, with a deafening silence of a thousand people, then the sound of a flute, still a fraction of silence and about 800 players start beating on the skins of the Taiko (Japanese drums) in unison.

All the Omote Sando Street that starts from the Narita train station stop at Naritasan Shinshoji Temple comes to life, a dozen boxes scattered along the edges of the street are ready to host the afternoon sessions with the Taiko performed by groups of Fudendaiko.

And while the sun sets in front of the Naritasan Shinshoji Temple, the evening concert begins - the last effort as the Taiko Drums salute the audience, mother nature and the pagan gods.

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