Obon Festival Shirley: she was a regular dancer in the Obon Festivals at Japanese Buddhist Temples around town, from about 2000 to about 2005.

Annie and Shirley at the 2004 Senshin Buddhist Temple Bon Odori.

Shirley watches the taiko drummers, West L.A. Buddhist Temple Obon, 2003.

Annie (foreground) and Shirley between dances at the West L.A. Buddhist Temple Obon Festival, 2003.

Again, she never met a flower she didn't like. Shirley with Ikebana (Japanese flower arrangement) at West L.A. Buddhist Temple Obon, circa 2001.

Rip and Shirley at the Tofu Festival, 2000, when it was still kind of nice (pre-Huell Hauser.)

Shirley alone in the crowd at Gardena Buddhist Temple Obon, just before joining the dancing, 2001.

Annie and Shirley, sneakily snapped at the Nisei Week parade, Little Tokyo, around 1998.

She used to say she would have enjoyed drumming.

Between dances, Shirley does a step for the camera, Gardena.

Shirley in her 2001 Obon Festival T-shirt at the Gardena Buddhist Temple Obon Festival.

Shirley and friend.

Happy dancing lady with uchiwa (fan) and tenegui (towel.)

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