Review—The Gion Festival: Exploring its Mysteries

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A guide to Japan’s biggest summer extravaganza: The Gion Festival

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Review by Cody Poulton It’s a bitter irony that a festival that is nearly as old as Kyoto, dedicated to ridding the city of pestilence in the hot and sticky month of July, was cancelled by the world-wide coronavirus pandemic last year. 2021 bodes no better: the great processions of splendid floats through the city, More…