Moreover, this dance and music combination most easily evoke the shamanic roots of the festival music. Like most traditional festivals, the Gion Festival was designed to communicate between humans and the supernatural – to placate vengeful spirits, welcome benevolent ones, or please the ones who could go either way. This could be considered what we call today a kind of shamanic journey or vision quest.
Though this float is a recent incarnation (reestablished in 1979 after a century-long absence from the festival), it’s known to have existed for at least five centuries. Visit the treasure display on the small temple grounds to see a painting and model of the larger, wheeled Ayagasa float that burned down in the great fire of 1864.
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