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Ancient Warrior
Aoi Matsuri, at the Kyoto Imperial Palace Park (“Kyoto Gosho”) （葵祭、京都御所）
A final post to round out Part 1 and Part 2 about this year's Aoi Matsuri festival (葵祭), at the Kyoto Imperial Palace Park last week, which is a parade of period costumes from a millennium or so ago.
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Affable Archers
As the parade participants were marshaling before the start, others were going about their business...
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Daycare Outing
I love these wagons of toddlers
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Like He Owns the Place
Walking through roped off barriers and such. His armband says “Press”.
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Rare Smile
this same guy appeared multiple times in the other parts, but without a smile
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10 More Seconds
the parade started exactly on time, down to the second
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Let's Go, This Way
the ancient equivalent of those guys who guide airplanes into the gate at the airport
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Big Honcho
of some kind
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Still Heavy
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Line of Umbrellas
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Flanked by Archers
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Someone Special
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More Special
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Demure Princess
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Lady on Horseback
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Focus
I actually hit it this time
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End
the ox-pulled cart signals the end of the parade
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Followers On
I'm guessing that they're members of an historical society or the like
and helped with costumes
This particular rope was such a pain. When i took this picture the parade had already ended and the rope would soon be dismantled, but during and before the parade, the rope separated the crowd from the parade participants, and if the rope had been equally taut everywhere, all the spectators would have been on the same plane and had the same view, but that one particular section of rope had a tremendous amount of slack, and people who happened to be there took advantage of it by pushing well past where they knew they were allowed to go, destroying the view for everyone else behind them. Some even broke out big sun umbrellas, as if to ensure maximum rudeness. I arrived early to secure a spot that granted the nice shots I wanted, but lost them all to these inconsiderate clods.
Anyway, the preschool kids who stopped by to enjoy the park as everyone else was leaving were cute...
