Tsuwano summer festival, SAGIMAI

This is a really traditional, local, and authentic Shinto festival. Amazing to see the tradition has been handed down and alive. Many tourists come on the occasion but still it has a local atmosphere and retains its original purpose: dedicating the dance and song to the divinity. The repetitive chanting and dancing but but very soulful.

    The troop is soon coming out of the gate behind these ornamnents. 

 The procession

 Dedicating dancing