Gion Matsuri Festival Japan

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The Gion Festival is a spectacular event held at Yasaka Shrine in Japan's ancient city of Kyoto spans the entire month of July and is known as one of the three greatest local festivals in Japan. It is crowned on July 17th by a parade in which 32 enormous floats, adorned with ancient tapestries from the world over, are pulled through town with by volunteers with their bar hands alone. Gion festival was started in 869 A.D when a bad plague spread through Kyoto. In the first festival, young men...
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The Gion Festival is a spectacular event held at Yasaka Shrine in Japan's ancient city of Kyoto spans the entire month of July and is known as one of the three greatest local festivals in Japan. It is crowned on July 17th by a parade in which 32 enormous floats, adorned with ancient tapestries from the world over, are pulled through town with by volunteers with their bar hands alone. Gion festival was started in 869 A.D when a bad plague spread through Kyoto. In the first festival, young men carried numbers of wooden floats. It was a divine intervention to stop the plague. The plague soon ended, and this event became a popular festival.
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