Gion matsuri 2022
2022-07-23
The parade of yamahoko floats was held in Kyoto’s Gion Matsuri Festival for the first time in three years after a suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Gion matsuri originally started during the Heian period, in the eighth to 12th centuries, to pray for the end of an epidemic at the time. It basically takes place […]