何が不景気な？これを見ろよ！金の祭りや！流石、大阪！商売人ばっかり来ている！僕も来坂してから毎年参加。（運より、屋台の為いっているけどさ）
What terrible economy? Look at this! A festival for money!? How very Osakan! Merchants and scum everywhere – Every year since I came to Osaka I show up (moreso for the food than the “luck” and “money”)
枝だーらーけー！！皆はこんなを持ちながら廻っている。
Better than lame-o “Palm Sunday!” Everyone’s got one to celebrate filthy lucre!!!
わぃ！自分用の枝ゲッティング！BLINGIN’!
One for me too! Free! Thank you monks!
枝ぐらいはタダやけどいろいろを飾らんと運が入ってこわへんらしい。２個でけをこうて￥７０００もこえちゃって。な〜に〜！むっちゃくちゃ付いてるやつをいっぱい見て、絶対、倍以上金をかけている人もおった。
Well, the branch is free but the stuff you hang on it sure isn’t. 2 Items cost me over 7000Yen. What’s!? Some people were walkin around here with branches chock full of these things – at least 100x more than mine!
うわぁ！何これ！泳ぎたい、このプールに！なんでか、人は金をほかしてる！足の下でも小銭だらけ！財布まで入れられた！これを見ると坊主になればよかったかもとおもってまうねん
At the heart of this evil festival – the money pit! People usually toss a few cents at an altar box, but this is sheer ludiocrity! Entire wads of bills, and even a Louis Vitton wallet stuffed with ca$h. Scrooge McDuck would be envious.
まぁまぁ、金は金やけど現金が食えへんやろう？
Well, you can’t eat money (though you can buy eats with money I guess… hmm) so it’s off to gorge myself.
冬はやっぱりサザエ！！うめぇえぇ！
Sazae! The traditional shellfish of winter!
１５個目…後８５個…
途中に現れた！いろんな友達！僕の枝より飾り物多くて、ちょっと恥ずかしかった。
And then everyone (with more stuff on their branches than me) started showing up!
ずっと欲しいけどケチ過ぎて買ってない招き猫！
The manekineko lucky cat that I will always be too cheap to buy – oh the irony!
うわ！久しぶりぃ！EVISUSANの為、近状は大分変わるんで現在地は全然気付かなかった。僕の好きなお寺があった！！OSAKABENの二回目の不動明王やぁ！
Hey! It’s that ol’ Fudo from back in the day last summer when I went bikin’ around temple hopping! I didn’t even recognize the area transformed by the Evisu festival, what with all the gold and food.
バルーン発見！！大阪の有名なメタボリックマイクマスター！（美味しいポテトフライいただきぃ！）
It’s Balloon! The ex-sumo mic-master… working part time at this great po-tay-to fry stand.
終わりかけやから値段が下がって行くねん！ディスカウント佐世保バーガー！！！うんめぇ！！！
Ahh! All the prices are dropping as the event draws to a close! Who could say no to discount sasebo burgers?!
うえっ！金の山の方がよかった！この後片付けるのは大変すぎ！スタッフのみんなようやるなぁ！
*Barf!* a mountain of trash! Hard to know if this is a result of the festival or a natural trashpile that manifests itself each night in Naniwa-ku. I much preferred the filthy pile of money.
