Stories
STORIES.
Editorial
Slow reading on the stories behind the festivals.
01 — Story
Gion Matsuri: a thousand summers
From a rite to quell epidemics to floats adorned by the townspeople — a month of Kyoto summer carries the memory of prayer.
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01 — HERITAGE
Floats: architecture in motion
02 — DANCE
The dancing city
03 — RITES
Honouring fire
04 — HANABI
Nagaoka: fireworks as a prayer
05 — HANABI
The pyrotechnician's fleeting art
06 — FESTIVALS
Nebuta: light for the northern night
07 — NEW YEAR
Hatsumōde: the first prayer of the year
08 — NEW YEAR
Midnight: the Japanese New Year
09 — WINTER
Festivals of snow and light