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For the first time in four years "Kanda festival"
Monet, who loves history exploration. It's C. This is my first post.
The Kanda Festival, the first time in four years, will be held from Thursday, May 11 to 17 (Wed).
Kanda festival is a festival held at Kanda-jinja Shrine in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. It is also called "Akira Kanda Shinto Festival".
portable shrine is served in Kariya, which was set up in Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi.
This is Muromachi 1-chome. Preparations for the festival are also progressing steadily.
Muromachi 1-chome has prospered by Nihonbashi fish banks, kimono shops, and currency exchange shops since the Edo period, and many shops have become long-established, making it the center of commerce and finance. I was able to talk to the chairman of Muromachi 1-chome Association.
"Our portable shrine has been in the prewar days, Japanese lantern has been in fish, but since the time when there was a fish shore in Nihonbashi in the Edo period, Mitsukoshi is in Echigoya in the Edo period, and Igumi is in the Edomachi fire extinguisher (Iroha 48). It has been handed down since the Edo period. Of course, I'll replace it if it breaks, so how many generations are now? At the time of carrying of miniature shrines, just around the "Japan Road Mark" above Nihonbashi, the pupils of Hie-jinja Shrine (Akasaka) are waiting side by side in a row to raise portable shrine high. I can't go beyond there, so portable shrine turns back at Nihonbashi.
The floats are also famous, and the picture of the forehead is "Kamo Nojin Katachiyama Car". Although it is more than 7m, the upper doll can be stored in the middle frame so that it does not hit electric wires etc. Before entering divine spirit portable shrine on the 12th, floats go around the town. In front of Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, the Shinto Festival (Horai, the procession of portable shrine) and the accompanying festival line join together, so it is the busiest and the crowd is amazing. This year, I guess it's been around 15:00 on the 13th," said Mr. Kanda festival. I'm really looking forward to it!
＊Kamo Nojin Katachiyama car: "Uokawagishisui Shrine Kamo Nojin Katachiyama Car" is designated as a private tangible folk cultural property in Chuo-ku. Edo-style doll floats owned by Mizu Shrine and Uogawagishikai. The Edo-style float is a variable type under Nidanjo, and is necessary for passing through the castle gate (approximately 4.4m) of Edo Castle at the Tenka Festival in the Edo period. The Kamo Nojin Katachiyama car was burned down in the Great Kanto Earthquake, but a model (1/10) still exists, and in 1955 (Showa 30), the Fish Bank Association commemorated the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Tsukiji Market. Restore Kamo Nojin Katachiyama car over 7 meters based on the model.
＊The Shinko Festival is a Shinto ritual with a troupe, portable shrine, and an old-fashioned procession traveling around the shrine parishioner 108 town council.
＊Ancillary festivals are pullings and costume parades made of huge tensions. The elaborate procession was popular even in the Edo period.
In 2023, whale sharks and Shohiko Meimei are scheduled to appear.
Reference: Official Handbook Kanda festival 2023 Edition, etc.