Japan, October 2004


Tour index
Tokyo
Kyoto & festivals
Hiroshima & Miyajima
Hakata/Fukuoka & Nagasaki
Okayama & Kurashiki
Tottori, Higashi-hama & Matsue
Kobe
Osaka

Kyoto Jidai Matsuri: Festival of Ages

October 22

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Jidai Matsuri: "Tokugawa Shogun's deputy paying a visit to the Empreror (1850)". The mops are signalling devices for battle, but here they're being thrown from man to man in street-show fashion.

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