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Spectators crowd around lantern-lit floats, built along Shijo-dori street in Kyoto’s Shimogyo Ward, during the Yoiyama (festival eve) period of the Gion Festival on July 16, 2018. (Yoshiko Sato) KYOTO The annual Gion Festival that started on July 1 in the ancient capital will not have its climactic processions of massive, decorative floats the main highlight of the festival for the second consecutive year due to the pandemic. But even with the parades called off, some of the floats will still be assembled for the first time in two years, festival officials said, to keep the traditional float-building technique alive. The central government has designated the “nawa garami” (rope tying) method used to hold the components together as an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property.

Ikujiro kimuraAsahi shimbunYoshihiro fukuiSaki matsuriRyuji otaNobusuke kimuraTakeshi haraGion festivalImportant intangible folk culturalShijo cho ofune hokoAto matsuriஆசாஹி ஶிஂபந்தகேஷி ஹராஜியோன் திருவிழா