Childrens' Lantern Float, Kojimachi 1,2, 3-chome Block Association, Sanno Festival ca. 1780 Torii Kiyonaga Japanese Since Edo times, the Sanno Festival has been celebrated in alternate years in the sixth month at the Hie Shrine in Tokyo. Because one of the deities associated with the shrine, Sanno Gongen, was a tutelary deity of the Tokugawa family, the festival enjoyed shogunal patronage. Then, as now, neighborhood groups carried portable shrines (mikoshi) and paraded floats of their own design through the streets and into Edo Childrens' Lantern Float, Kojimachi 1,2, 3-chome Block As
Childrens' Lantern Float, Kojimachi 1,2, 3-chome Block Association, Sanno Festival ca. 1780 Torii Kiyonaga Japanese Since Edo times, the Sanno Festival has been celebrated in alternate years in the sixth month at the Hie Shrine in Tokyo. Because one of the deities associated with the shrine, Sanno Gongen, was a tutelary deity of the Tokugawa family, the festival enjoyed shogunal patronage. Then, as now, neighborhood groups carried portable shrines (mikoshi) and paraded floats of their own design through the streets and into Edo Childrens' Lantern Float, Kojimachi 1,2, 3-chome Block Association, Sanno Festival 45241
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