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Ten Videos : Sanja Matsuri Festival Mikoshi Shrines Tour of Asakusa

 16 May, 2009
Saturday

On the third day of the Sanja Matsuri festival, about one hundred mikoshi (portable shinto shrines) from forty four districts of Asakusa were taken on an energetic tour of the town. I wrote about this in the Asakusa Mikoshi Shrines Carrying post. Below are TEN videos showing the mikoshi tour performed by different districts.

First, here are the kids, who carried their own pint-sized mikoshi...



Nine more videos below...



















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