The Sanja Matsuri festival is considered one of the wildest and largest Shinto festivals in Japan. Processions, traditional music playing and dancing in the streets mark the festival as they commemorate the building of the shrines by three Japanese Shinto devotees. It is held in Asakusa, Tokyo for four days on the third weekend of May. We arrived in Tokyo just in time for us to join the last day of the festival.
(this is part one of the photo-documentation. it's on digital. part two consists of black and white film photographs).
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| local gentry in hakama |
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| girls bearing the mikoshi in a procession |
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| up to 2 million people flock to attend the festival that honors the three Japanese men who built the shrines. |
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| the worshippers chant as they carry the heavy replica of one of the temples in Asakusa. |
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| a float for traditional japanese music |
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| men in kimonos |
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| a long queue of shinto worshippers infront of Senso-ji |
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| women carrying the mikoshi |
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| men carrying the mikoshi in a wild procession |
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| children with their own miniature mikoshi |
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| worshippers of different ages and gender participate in carrying the mikoshi |
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| (photo of my wife and me in front of senso ji, by anton concepcion) |
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