Japan’s
National Pillow Fight Contest is the place to go for you,
the posters shown here feature
Olympic gymnast Airi Hatakeyama in a series of poses that represents the pillars
of pillow fighting: throw, dodge and defend,
they were
produced by the organizing committee of Japan’s
National Pillow Fighting Contest, which originated in 2013 in the small
city of Itō on central Japan’s Izu Peninsula,
Japanese
pillow fighting differs from that of the west in that pillows are thrown,
instead of swung,
the
Japanese word for pillow fight is makuranage, which literally means pillow
throwing, and historically they’ve been fought during overnight school field
trips, which is why the standard uniforms are yukata robes that are worn at
ryokan,
the video above was produced in tandem with the posters in 2019, looking at the video I was so much reminded of the film Dodgeball.
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