Tsukiji Namiki Shrine's summer festival “Tsukiji Lion Festival” will be held from June 6 to 10, and this year is the main festival once every three years.
From 3:30 p.m. on Friday the 8th, a female-only shrine for the Benzaiten Tookoku lion (female lion) was held.
This is the last tour of Miya portable shrine to Tsukiji.
In addition, this year, the "Funa imperial procession" was held as a celebration festival for the 30th anniversary of the Emperor's throne, in which Miya portable shrine, which had been discontinued since the Edo period, and there were many people.
On Saturday, the 9th, another lion, "Accepted Ceiling Large Lion", will also join the line of cruises in the Tsukiji area by trolley.
The large lion's "Tooth Black Lion" is 2.15m tall and weighs 700kg, and the image of deity of Benzaiten is placed in the jewel of the head, which represents a female. You can always see a pair of male and female lion heads on the grounds.
It was a shooting while envisioning how many bearers were added to the ferry in the Edo period.
