Kyoto Festival: Jidai Matsuri [4K]

For more information, check out the Jidai Matsuri page on our website: Considered to be one of the top three festivals in all of Kyoto despite its status as a relatively new tradition, Heian Shrine’s Jidai Matsuri (Festival of the Ages) is held on October 22nd from noon each year. The festival is primarily composed of a two kilometer, five hour long procession of countless volunteers dressed in historical garb representing Japanese cultural history from the Meiji era all the way back to the Enryaku era in the 780’s. Painstakingly recreated and researched, going so far as to even make and dye the fabric using the same techniques as they used a thousand years ago, the procession is akin to watching a living history museum march by. Not only do famous historical figures and princesses make appearance, but warriors, priests, politicians, merchants, and commoners are all represented. With that many characters, the Jidai Matsuri gives a very comprehensive look in to the clothing and appearance of Japanese past. 00:18 - Meiji Imperial Army Drum & Fife Corps 00:52 - Patriots of the Meiji Restoration 02:33 - Edo Period Procession of Shogunal Deputies 03:25 - Women of the Edo Period 04:38 - Toyotomi Hideyori’s Procession 05:15 - Oda Nobubaga’s Entry into Kyoto 06:40 - Muromachi Shogunate Procession 07:07 - Muromachi Customs & Daily Life 07:35 - Kusunoki Masashige’s Entrance into Kyoto 08:12 - Ladies from the Middle Ages 09:05 - Yabusame Archers from the Kamakura Period 09:35 - Fujiwara Courtiers’ Procession to Court 10:04 - Ladies from the Heian Period 11:31 - Sakanoue Tamuramoro’s Victorious Return 11:59 - Procession of 8th Century Court Nobles 12:13 - Offerings to the Deities 12:30 - Portable Shrine Procession 13:40 - Shirakawa-me & a Company of Archers