The Gion Festival is a festival of Yasaka Shrine, and the festival is held for about a month, starting with "Kichifuiri" on July 1st and ending with "Eki Shrine Nagoshi Festival" on July 31st. "Kyoto Gion Festival Yamahoko Event" is registered as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. The Gion Festival has a history of more than 1,000 years, and is a festival of Yasaka Shrine where various festivals are held for a month from July 1st (Kichifuiri) to 31st (Eki Shrine Nagoshi Festival). In particular, the Yamaboko Junko on the 17th (Sakimatsuri) and 24th (Atomatsuri), and the Yoiyama held on the day before the festival, attract a large number of people, and the city of Kyoto is filled with the excitement of the festival. We have made a video of the topics of such a festival.
Using the still images I took in the past, I visualized the Yoiyama and Yamaboko cruise of the Gion Festival. The departure ceremony for the pre-festival will be held at the intersection of Shijo-dori and Fuyacho-dori, in front of a drug store. All floats cruise the same route. The yamaboko performs a tsuji-mawashi at the intersection. Rotate the halberd like that. The shooting point can be taken at the moment of departure from the Takase River on Shijo Street. You can also photograph the front of the float from Kawaramachi-dori and Oike-machi-dori. However, you need a long telephoto lens of 300mm. If you want to see the floats up close, Shinmachi-dori is good. In particular, the open space in front of the Telecommunications Hospital is wide and easy to photograph. A stepladder is convenient because the crowd is in front of the camera. However, security has been tight recently, and the range of filming has become limited.
The Yamaboko cruise is divided into two parts. The scale of the 17th is larger, and there are more shooting points.
After the cherry blossoms, Kyoto is beautiful with fresh greenery. And visitors always come from all over the world. You can smell Europe while you are in Japan. There are so many attractive video subjects. That is the interesting part of the ancient capital of Kyoto.
Whenever I go out for a shoot, I think about what I plan to blog about. But once the shooting is over, the editing is over, and the footage is updating, you forget about it. Perhaps there is a difference between the planning and the knowledge gained from walking through the field. So I go out to the field.
Kyoto is also full of highlights, with cherry blossoms in April, fresh greenery in May, moss-covered gardens in June, the Gion Festival, a traditional Japanese festival in July, and Gozan Okuribi on August 17th.
My past video-Kyoto edition can be found at the following URL. https://www.youtube.com/@team_mikami/... (In japanese)
Fieldwork809.風光る新緑の京都/Kyoto of the fresh green that shines 4K
The cherry blossoms were scattered because it rained for two days. However, it was the city of Kyoto with a transparent landscape. There is no way to miss such a photo opportunity. I went for an evening walk. Along the approach to Kiyomizu-dera, there are Japanese-clad Taiwanese, Koreans, Southeast Asians, Indians, Islamic countries, Westerners, and South Americans. 90% of the visitors were foreigners, according to the photographed images. "Why do so many people come to Kyoto?" The main reasons for this are the cheap exchange rate and the renewed recognition of beautiful Kyoto. I'm guessing it's a Japanesque boom. Then I encountered the procession of "The Fox's Wedding" at Kodaiji Temple. In the past, brides were greeted by a procession of paper lanterns at the time of their wedding, and it was thought that a fox was getting married because of the mysterious lights. "Foxes have long been believed to deceive people in Japan." Is your wife a fox? It is one of the traditional Japanese events that has a connotative meaning. It was a time when the scent of European and American perfumes and Japanese folk traditions intertwined.
Fieldwork803 Perfume and the Fox's Wedding/香水と狐の嫁入り 4K
The cherry blossoms, which bloomed two weeks earlier than usual, are also Kyoto, the city of flowers. "Rain forecast from the evening." This puts an end to the blooming of cherry blossoms. I visited Kenninji Temple before it started to rain. Today, I set the color temperature of the equipment to a tungsten light. The blue air seems to be suitable for the air when the flowers are scattered. Using the phoroshop made the cherry blossoms look even better than the scenery. I wonder if the color of cherry blossoms still remained in the color information. The city of Kyoto feels so lonely. It may be that the large number of foreigners conveys the atmosphere of a foreign country.
