Gion Festival
Today I suffered the agony of extreme humidity and pushy old people at Kyoto's Gion Matsuri, one of the most famous festivals in Japan. It's actually about a month long celebration but today was parade day, or Yama-boko JunkÅ. The floats are enormous, pulled by 14 to 40 people using big-ass ropes, whose pulling is coordinated by fan-wielding chanters. At the top of the floats sit rows of musicians, children dressed in traditional costumes... and some random guys chilling on the roof, for no apparent reason. I had a coveted "corner position" so I got to watch the slightly awkward process of making the floats do a 45 degreee turn.
posted by kumagoro @ 4:28 p.m.
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Sweet. I've always wanted to go to the Gion festival, although you're right about it Kyoto in the summer it's one of the grossest, stickiest places to be.
BTW I figured out that internet thing. As I thought, it's still in my name so we need to get it changed.
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