Saturday, 6 September 2008

Theme: Festival

Terms and Conditions:
1) Cannot be local Festival
(eg.. mid autum festival, dragonboat festival, new year ... etc)
2) must be cross-cutural meaning must be in europe country or japan or north africa etc etc
3) List the followings:
a. y choose these festival
b. wat the speciallity of the festival

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Festival: Sanja Festival of Asakusa Shrine

Venue: Tokyo along with 2 other festival: Kanda Festival and Sanno Festival

History:
According to legend, the shrine was built to honor two fishermen and a village elder who in the seventh century held a memorial service for a statue of the goddess Kannon that the fishermen found floating in a nearby river. The statue later become the principle image of the temple Sensoji, a renowned center of Kannon worship.


Speciality:
Mikoshi transport local deities, who are believed to leave their shrines once a year during festivals to visit the local community and extend their protection to parishioners for the coming year.
The Sanja Festival features an ancient dance called binzasara no mai and offers visitors a peek into how the townspeople of Edo (now Tokyo) celebrated festive occasions in the past.

Unqiuelity:
The Mikoshi need thousand of ppl to carry, it marks the respectivity of the deity. Deity leaving the shrine is a grand thing. Besides it is a annual event, thus ppl will have to be more careful during the rides.

signing off ...
Rong Fa