Today all over Tokyo there were festivals in each neighborhood in which people were parading miniature shrines. What is the festival/occasion that brought that about today and what is the symbolism behind the miniature shrines?
2006-09-17 00:13:58 · 4 answers · asked by Ryan 1 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Japan
nth much for 2day i guess
2006-09-17 00:21:14 · answer #1 · answered by suresh s 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Today - Sept 18 - is a national holiday. It's respect for the elderly day. It used to be on the 15th but a few years ago the govt made it permantly on the monday closest to the 15th.
A number of local shrines are having matsuri to celebrate.
The mikoshi is a minature portable shrine that the god of the principle shrine is said to inhabit. People will throw one and 5 yen coins sometimes onto the mikoshi for good luck.
2006-09-18 09:42:11 · answer #2 · answered by samurai_dave 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the miniature shrines is "Mikoshi" in Japanese.
The followong URL explain about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoshi
I explain more.
Japan has long history, so there are so many traditonal parades in Japan. One of the parades is about shrine.
In order that Shinto deity move to somewhere, Shinto deity get on the Mikoshi.It's kind of portable Shrine.
2006-09-18 00:39:18 · answer #3 · answered by Tomo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tokyo Festival Opens With a Kurosawa Film
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Published: June 1, 1985
The first Tokyo International Film Festival opened today with the premiere of ''Ran,'' a Shakespearean story in a Japanese feudal setting by Japan's most acclaimed director, Akira Kurosawa.
A total of 137 films from 42 countries are to be screened during the 10-day festival.
''Ran,'' or ''Turmoil,'' was not completed in time for the Cannes Film Festival this month. Mr. Kurosawa spent nine months shooting the film, his 27th, which he has said ''is to round out my life's work in films.'' It cost $10.4 million, unusually expensive for a Japanese film.
The 75-year-old director has described ''Ran'' as a rendition of Shakespeare's ''King Lear'' in a 16th-century Japanese setting.
2006-09-17 07:33:46 · answer #4 · answered by Sam X9 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋