KASUGA WAKAMIYA ON-MATSURI
- José Carlos Gómez Delgado
- Dec 19, 2015
- 1 min read
On-matsuri is a festival that has been held in the vicinity of Kasuga Shrine in Nara since citizens of the city organized it for the first time in the twelfth century to offer prayers against an epidemic that spread across the territory and to pray for good harvests.
Although the festival is celebrated for four days, in which you can attend traditional songs and dances (kagura and bugaku) dedicated to the gods, the main day is the 17. This day takes place a parade of the years of Japan (Jidai Gyrotesu) which is showing the evolution of costumes and weapons from the ninth to the nineteenth century, that is, from the Heian to the Edo Period.
Of course, no festival without food stalls, this time distributed around the Sarusawa Pond.
On the last day Sumo demonstrations were showed and performances of recitation and traditional music.
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