Japanese traditional Sedan Festival Asakusa Sanshe Festival

Sanshe Festival is a large-scale festival held in Asakusa Shrine every May. The representative Tokyo Shenjiao Festival attracts millions of tourists every year, making them feel rich traditional folk customs. Let's take a look at the Japanese festival Asakusa Sanshe Festival.

Time and place of Asakusa Sanshe Festival;

It will be held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the third week of May at Asakusa Shrine in Tokyo and Asakusa in Taitung District of Tokyo.

Sanshe Festival is a festival that has been spread since the Edo period. Almost every festival will be celebrated. At dawn, there will be Miyamiya Eighty Town, and it will start patrolling around Asakusa 44. The so-called "three meetings" refer to the existing three meetings dedicated to Amitabha Tathagata, Guanyin Bodhisattva and Shi Zhi Bodhisattva, which are today's Asakusa Shrine. And this festival is held for the god guarded by Asakusa people.

Introduction to Asakusa Sanshe Festival:

Asakusa Sanshe Festival is held in Asakusa, which retains the traditional style and is a representative festival of Tokyo Shintoism. During the three days of the festival, hundreds of thousands of tourists can be welcomed every year. People with dozens of sedan chairs on their shoulders show unusual enthusiasm, including sedan chairs all carried by women or children.

On the way, you can see the scene of the sedan chair shaking violently, indicating that the divine power of the gods sitting in the sedan chair has risen. At noon on Saturday, sedan chairs, large and small, gathered at the shrine and began to parade in the street. On Sunday, there will be three extra-large sedan chairs in the team. These sedan chairs will leave the shrine at 6 am and return to the shrine at nearly 20 pm.

In addition to the sacred sedan chair, the parade starting on Friday 13: 00 is not to be missed. Floats carrying bagpipers and drummers, as well as singers and dancers dressed as traditional craftsmen, marched from Liu Jie to the shrine.

After arriving at the shrine, you can watch the Binzasala dance. Dancers wear gorgeous costumes and hold a musical instrument called BINZASARA, which is connected with bamboo pieces, and pray for future generations to have a bumper harvest and prosperity. The performance of wood weaving is a bit like an accordion. Opening and closing play a rich melody, which is very interesting.