The Yamaboko Junkō parade, part of the Gion Festival celebrated every 17th and 24th July in Kyoto, Japan. A procession of dashi or floats which are magnificently decorated and carry effigies of Chinese philosophers and scholars. After a nineteenth century photograph.

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he Yamaboko Junkō parade, part of the Gion Festival celebrated every 17th and 24th July in Kyoto, Japan. A procession of dashi or floats which are magnificently decorated and carry effigies of Chinese philosophers and scholars. After a nineteenth century photograph. From Customs of The World, published c. 1913.

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