Portable shrine and float collide. At the Imari Tontenton Festival in October, a fighting shrine and a fighting float crash violently into each other—one of Japan's three great quarrel festivals. The name comes from the sound of the drums, ton-ten-ton, and to that beat the men shoulder the shrine and the float and charge, grappling, shoving, surging at last toward the river. The finale is a battle in the water: both teams tumble into the Imari River and wrestle beneath the surface, grappling until a winner emerges, the soaked men roaring. It is a rough festival for a town known for porcelain. Imari ware is famous for its delicate beauty, and this is its opposite—violent, valiant—the same town holding both, the still and the moving. Three days of collision in the autumn.