Gion Festival

"Yoiyama"

The Gion Festival or Gion Matsuri is a festival held every year in Kyoto in July. The festival is held at Yasaka shrine.

Gion Festival Media

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The parade held in Kyoto in the 1920s
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Traditional wooden floats in Gion Matsuri 2014.
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Niwatoriboko float, one of the first to begin the parade. Festival-goers take turns getting on the float through a side building.
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Niwatoriboko float at night
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Festival street with food and craft vendors
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Ayagasaboko float marchers
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A yamaboko float (2013)
- description:Police presence at the festival marks a change from the old festivals to those of the present. * * photographer: Chris Gladis * photographer location:Kyoto, Japan * flickr_url: [1]*Note, the policeman on the left is not holding a light-saber, it is a police baton warning stick, as discussed on the reference desk
Gion Matsuri
Gion Matsuri

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