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Gion Matsuri - Mikoshi (神輿)
Mikoshi, or portable Shinto shrines, are used to transport deities between the main shrine and the temporary shrine. To do this, Mikoshi are carried by people on their shoulders.
This one belongs to the Yasaka Shrine and is moved to a temporary shrine in the Gion district to purify and pacify the pathogenic entities in the area.
There are three of them and it took the porters almost 4 hours to get them to the temporary shrine. Each Mikoshi weighs between 1 and 2 tons, so you can imagine the effort (I even saw a man faint and be carried by an ambulance).
The mikoshi will stay there for a week before being taken back to the main shrine by the porters.
Gion Matsuri - Mikoshi (神輿)
Mikoshi, or portable Shinto shrines, are used to transport deities between the main shrine and the temporary shrine. To do this, Mikoshi are carried by people on their shoulders.
This one belongs to the Yasaka Shrine and is moved to a temporary shrine in the Gion district to purify and pacify the pathogenic entities in the area.
There are three of them and it took the porters almost 4 hours to get them to the temporary shrine. Each Mikoshi weighs between 1 and 2 tons, so you can imagine the effort (I even saw a man faint and be carried by an ambulance).
The mikoshi will stay there for a week before being taken back to the main shrine by the porters.