2016年6月5日 星期日

Portable shrine, Mikoshi. 神轎, 神輿

Participants clad in traditional “happi” coats carry and strongly swing “mikoshi”, or portable shrine to left and right in Tenno-sai festival at Susanoo Shrine in Tokyo Saturday, June 4, 2016. Tenno-sai festival is an annual traditional festival which is believed to expel a contagious disease in summer to protect people. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)
The Day in Photos – June 5, 2016
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Portable shrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A mikoshi (神輿?) is a divine palanquin (also translated as portable Shinto shrine)

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