Otsu Matsuri
October 10th From evening to 21:00
October 11th From 9:00-17:30
You can see the festival around JR Otsu Station which is only 10min from Kyoto Station.
This dazzling autumn celebration of Tenson Shrine
is one of the Three Great Festivals of Shiga. The Otsu Festival has a history of nearly 400 years. It is
said to have begun in the early Edo period (1603-1868) in the tanuki
(raccoon dog) mask dance of a salt peddler named Jihee. The tanuki mask
tradition has been preserved as an Otsu Municipal Cultural Property, and
as the festival's roots lie in these masks, each year the
Saigyo-Sakura-Tanuki float from Kajiya-cho leads the festival
procession.
The Otsu Festival has many attractions—most
notably the thirteen extravagant floats adorned with tapestries and
other ornaments which parade throughout town on the day of the festival
and the lively festival music that can be heard reverberating endlessly
throughout Otsu's neighborhoods on the eve of the procession.
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