The Gion Festival Yamaboko Floats
The Gion Festival’s 33 yamaboko or floats are arguably its most famous feature. Actually, the Gion Festival’s true luminaries are the many deities that it celebrates. Maybe you can sense them, but deities are generally invisible. So the festival’s spectacular yamaboko capture most of our worldly attention.
What’s do you need to know about the Gion Festival yamaboko? Firstly, yamaboko come in two types of float: yama and hoko.
Also, the Gion Festival yamaboko appear in two phases. Twenty-three form the larger saki matsuri (“early festival,” from July 10-17).
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