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The Gion Matsuri is a traditional festival which has been held at Yasaka Shrine

 for more than 1100 years in eastern Kyoto. The festival was first held in 869,

 when a plague swept the country. people believed it was a curse of Gozu Tenno.

 Sixty-six pikes representing  the provinces of the time were erected at Shinsen-en

Garden, south of where Nijo castle now stands. The Gion gods were celebrated and

portable shrines were paraded through the streets as the people prayed prayed for

an abatement of the pestilence. This is the origin of the Gion Goryo, a ceremony

for the dead.

  

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The Gion Matsuri is a traditional festival which has been held at Yasaka Shrine

 for more than 1100 years in eastern Kyoto. The festival was first held in 69.

 when a olague swept the country. peaple believed it was a curse of Gozu Tenno.

 Sixty-six pikes representing  the provinces of the time were erected at Shinsen-en

Garden, south of where Nijo castle now stands. The Gion gods were celebrated and

portable shrines were paraded through the streets as the people prayed prayed for

an abatement of the pestilence. This is the orgin of the Gion Goryo, a ceremony

for the dead.