The Gion Festival’s structure is one of its most interesting features. Like an ecosystem or the human body, it’s a massive, semi-autonomous, interdependent, self-organizing system.
Yasaka Shrine is the parent shrine and determines what happens with the main Gion Matsuri deities. Yasaka Shrine has major input into, for example, whether and in what form its deities get transported off the Yasaka Shrine grounds. The Yasaka Shrine deities’ visit to downtown Kyoto comprises the spiritual heart of the Gion Matsuri
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