Kirk here with a follow-up to my previous post about the festival in progress downtown. I just posted about the cultural events (traditional performances, etc.) but this is about street performers. On TV, I saw a little bit of the chair stacking guy you see on the left. It looked pretty amazing. This image is from the following webpage:
There is, naturally, information about this on the Hanabata Hiroba website, but pages on that website are not Facebook ready (images don’t show up automatically). Sigh . . . :(