YOSAKOIソーラン回顧、２０１４年（その１）：この年、２０２０年の東京オリンピックに向けて、１９６４年の東京オリンピックの主会場となった国立競技場が取り壊されました。最後の見納めのための特別公開に小生も赴き、見物したのを憶えています。海外では、今次のウクライナ戦争の前哨戦とも言うべき、ロシアによるクリミア併合が起きています。この年のYOSAKOIソーラン祭りに遥々やって来た関東地方のチームを幾つか：東京のダンスパフォーマンス集団・迫-HAKU-、茨城の水戸藩YOSAKOI連、千葉県の市立船橋高校吹奏楽部THEヨサコイ。（YOSAKOI-Soran in memories, 2014[1]: the year 2014 was the year when the national track-and-field stadium, which had served as the main athletic facilities of the 1964 Tokyo Olympic games, was dismantled to build a new one for the 2020 Olympics. I had an opprtunity to visit the stadium, which was open to the public before its closure. A major event overseas in that year was Russia's annexation of Crimea, which, in retrospect, was a prelude to the on-going war in Ukraine. Posted here are snap shots of some teams that participated in the YOSAKOI-Soran Festival of that year. They all came from the Kanto region, i.e., the Tokyo metropolitan district and its vicinity. They are Dance Performance Group "HAKU" from Tokyo, MITO-HAN YOSAKOI-REN [lit.; Mito Domain YOSAKOI team] from Ibaragi, and the Funabashi Municipal High School Brass Band-THE YOSAKOI from Chiba. *Notes: "HAKU," spelled 迫, very often combines with another KANJI symbol 力. The resulting compound 迫力 means "impactive power." MITO-HAN, spelled 水戸藩, refers to a feudal domain that ruled a part of today's Ibaragi Prefecture, located to the northeast of Tokyo. Its ruling house was a branch family of the Tokugawa warrior government that ruled Japan from the early 17th century to the mid-19th century. Chiba Prefecture is located to the immediate east of Tokyo.)
YOSAKOIソーランとは直接関係ありませんが、この年（2014年）に取り壊された
旧国立競技場。入り口の壁には、東京オリンピックの金メダリストの名前が。
聖火台。
ダンスパフォーマンス集団 迫 -HAKU-、東京都小平市。
六月七日、三越前会場。
水戸藩YOSAKOI連、日付・会場共に同上。
市立船橋高校吹奏楽部THEヨサコイ、六月八日、大通会場。
既に、今年のYOSAKOIソーラン祭りの審査ブロックが発表されています（
）が、本日紹介した三チーム、全て参加するようです！