Aoi Festival held on May 15th in Kyoto

By TERRY - Last updated: 金曜日, 5月 31, 2013 - Save & Share - Leave a Comment

Aoi Festival(/葵祭, Aoi-matsuri,  Hollyhock Festival) ,which is one of the three great festivals of Kyoto was held in that city on May 15th. (http://www.kyokanko.or.jp/aoi/)

The festival is for two shrines  of  Kamikamo shrine and Shimokamo Shrine both of which are in Kyoto.  The main part of the festival is a parade of  more than 500 people clad in period costumes of  traditional Japanese priests and nobles. The symbolic figure of the parade is Saio-dai(/斎王代, acting head priestess of  the two shrines) and this time a 20- year-old female collage student was appointed as the 58th Saio-dai and showed up in the decorated float-sedan in the parade.

 

  

Other sacred events followed the parade and   tea ceremonies were held for the visitors in the shrines.

Posted in Entertainment, KIMONO, Kyoto, Lifestyle, Old and New Cultural Scenes in Japan • • Top Of Page
1つ星2つ星3つ星4つ星5つ星 (まだ評価されていません)
Loading...

Send a Message

This blog is kept spam free by WP-SpamFree.