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Summer festival on Chuo-dori! "Shitamachi Union imperial procession"

[Dharma] June 16, 2018 18:00

The Sanno Festival "Shitamachi Union imperial procession" was held on Sunday, June 10 between the Kyobashi Police Museum and Nihonbashi on Chuo-dori. The street is completely closed. Before twelve o'clock, 17 units from each town lined up, starting in front of Tokyo Square Garden, where hydrangea was at its best. Around 12:30, imperial procession started with a woodwork of Tobito people and a single tightening. It's raining, but the shouts sound! The powerful portable shrine landscape of men and women of all ages is wonderful. "Nihonbashi" without stopping momentum ... near the main plate of Japan Road in the center, portable shrine is given to each unit....About two hours of imperial procession finished.

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Kayabacho Summer Festival! Sanno Festival resting place of portable shrines Festival

[Dharma] June 15, 2018 12:00

"Sanno Festival"...It is one of the three major festivals in Japan, along with the Gion Festival in Kyoto and the Tenjin Festival in Osaka. The 2018 event schedule is from June 7 to 17 (see the Sanno Festival official website!) 。 On June 8, the largest ceremony of the Sanno Festival, "Kamiko Festival", was held. 2 Goho, 1 Miya portable shrine, Shinto priesthood, Miko, shrine parishioner, Saru Tabiko, Carriage, gohei, Kasahoko float, Lion, Nobori, Higher Lantern...They traveled around the shrine parishioner area in a large line of 300m. It is a reproduction of the dynasty picture scroll. 7; 30 Head Office - 12:00 Imperial Palace Sakashitamon (Sanga) - 13:20 Hie-jinja Shrine Nihonbashi auxiliary shrine....In front of main hall, three Gohoren and Miya portable shrine were lined up, and the grounds were filled with no cones, including Shinto priesthood Ujiko, the press and visitors. A pilgrimage horse is taking a break on the sidewalk behind the auxiliary shrine...From here, Kyobashi-Ginza-Shimbashi-in front of the Prime Minister's Office-16:45 It will be a pilgrimage to return to Ee Shrine.

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Tsukiji Summer Festival! "Namiju Shrine"

[Dharma] June 12, 2018 14:00

"Tsukiji Lion Festival": The main festival, once every three years, was held from June 6 to 10. . On June 8th, the Funa imperial procession, which had been held during the Edo period, was revived for the first time in 100 years, and the rituals of the Water Jinsai were revived. In addition, Miyairi / Miyade (inside the riverside) of the tooth black lion only for women ... Tsukiji Do your best! It was "impressed." Let's go out of "Sennukimiya portable shrine". This is the last imperial procession in the market. After a single tightening in front of the "Mizu Shrine", it is lifted by a clay from the quay in the market and on board....Go up the Sumida River, a U-turn around Tsukiji, and a "Water Town Festival" was held near Kachidokibashi on the Ginza side. After this, we will descend to the Hamarikyu Imperial Villa, the starting point of the imperial procession Festival on the 9th of the following day.

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