"Gion Matsuri and Japanese Festivals": Cerritos College (Los Angeles) Study Abroad in Kyōto, July 15, 2025

This might be the most gorgeous slideshow you ever see, informative as well about the Gion festival and Kyōto. Japanese festivals are above all presented as Shintō rituals. The Gion Matsuri began in 869 to ward off epidemics, but was ironically canceled during the recent pandemic. Longtime research and insider experiences in Japanese, with guidance by a Gion festival leader, culminate in fascinating information and annotated photos.

View the slideshow
on ResearchGate: http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.13203.80162
on Academia Edu: https://www.academia.edu/130493544
Japanese government's ResearchMap 祇園祭と日本の祭り (Japanese annotations - 日本語による説明):
https://researchmap.jp/waoe/presentations/50603456?lang=ja

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KUKURIZARU

When walking through the neighbourhood that tumbles down the hillside from Kiyomizu-dera to Gion, you may notice some odd-shaped talismans hung outside homes and businesses.

Kukurizaru (くくり猿) are small balls of cloth, most commonly red in colour.

A marker drawing, pencil drawing, and an ink pen drawing of a brunette and brown-eyed Japanese geisha/geiko/geigi woman reapplying her red lipstick in the okiya in Gion Kobu, Kyoto, Japan, in Tayasui Sketches
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From an evening walk around the Gion area of Kyoto a couple of years ago, here is a set of photos shot with the Fujifilm X-E2 and an 18-55mm Fujinon lens - a camera system that I really liked but had to sell. Maybe one of these days in the future, I’ll return to Fuji’s X series again.