~Festival~

★Jidai Festival in Kyoto★



I am interested in Jidai Festival in Kyoto. So I will explain this festival. This festival is one of a historical and traditional festival in Kyoto. It is very famous one. It has started since 1896. When this festival started, Japan is in the Meiji period. In other words, it has been continued for about 102 years. Jidai festival takes place to celebrate the constriction of the Heian Shrine. It is held on October 22nd every year. To be an exciting festival, pepole wear a lot of kinds of traditional costumes and parade to the Heian Shrine. This parade is divided into seven different periods. Each group of period wears each traditional costume. The length of this parade is about 2 kilometer. Therefore it takes three or four hours for all pepole to arrive at the Heian Shrine. The participants in the parade is about two thousand pepole. I have never seen this festival. So I want to see this some day.