Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine Reitaisai festival, once every three years, began.
Yesterday on Friday (July 31), it seems that the great exorcism style and the purification ritual town of Mikoshi were held (unfortunately, I couldn't see it because I was working).
The hot night continues these days, but it was hot this morning on Saturday and I woke up early, so I took a walk around Tsukuda before 7 o'clock in the morning. The morning wind across the Sumida River is refreshing.
When you enter Tsukuda (Tsukuda 1-chome), the town is decorated with Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine and light blue banners and lanterns that are pulled out in white letters everywhere, enlivening the atmosphere of the festival. 
In addition, the large banner, which can only be seen at this time, excites the atmosphere. Yesterday evening, it was raised all at once in various parts of the town, and the design is slightly different, each of which is slightly different. Let's compete with the surrounding tower apartments for height. It flutters in the wind.
In the meantime, it is still at 7 o'clock in the morning, but the music has started at the stall near Tsukuda Kobashi. The excitement of the festival is exciting at once. It is from Tsukuda's musical accompaniment by Taneo Wakayama of the country-designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property. The drum expresses the sound of waves, and the flute expresses the sound of a stagger.
