Thousands of umbrellas bobbed up and down to the rhythm of "Tokyo Ondo," creating a glittering canopy in the stands at Tokyo Dome as the stadium lights reflected off plastic umbrella panels while the familiar melody rang out across the stadium before the top of the seventh in Game 3 of the Japan Series.
The festival-like atmosphere resurfaced later in the inning, after a two-run home run by Domingo Santana gave the Tokyo Yakult Swallows a one-run lead and brought the majority of the 24,565 in attendance to their feet, creating a new blanket of flickering lights as umbrellas again rose and fell in unison.
The Big Egg might not be Jingu Stadium, but it will do for a few days.