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Awata Matsuri The Awata Matsuri is an annual festival put on by the Awata Jinja, a Shinto shrine located about four-hundred yards from my house. All of the neighborhoods in its precincts gather contributions from their member (ujiko) households for its operation, and some of these households also hold the right to set up temporary shrines where the main procession will pass by. In many ways, this small festival is a miniature of the city's one great festival: Gion matsuri. Like Gion, the Awata Matsuri's traditional practice relies upon the availability of historic-period architecture. |
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