'Yamaboko-Junko':the floats procession
| Nomination Award of Festivities |
| The Gion Matsuri Festival |
| Robert Mulder(the Netherlands ) |
| The Gion Matsuri Festival is yearly celebrated in Kyoto, Japan. It all started in 869 when Gion, a district of Kyoto, was threatened by an epidemic disease. The priest of the Yasaka Temple ordered all young men to draw a holy shrine through the streets. The epidemic disappeared and since the festival takes place every year. |
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| 5ˇ˘'Geisha' girls presenting themselves on the final day of the Festival. |
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| 6ˇ˘'Geisha' girls presenting themselves on the final day of the Festival. |
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| 9ˇ˘Close up of one of the shrines that is pulled through
the streets. The girl in the middle symbolizes a 'Khami', a God. 'Yamaboko-Junko':the floats procession |
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