March 3rd is the Peach Festival.
For the first time in four years, Shimogamo Shrine, a World Heritage Site in Kyoto City, held the "Nagashi-bina" event, in which paper dolls are thrown into the river to ward off misfortune.
Shimogamo Shrine in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City's "Nagashi Hina" is a Shinto ritual in which paper Hina dolls are thrown into the river to ward off misfortunes and blemishes in line with the Peach Festival. it was done.
On the banks of the Mitarai River, which flows through the precincts, men and women dressed in costumes from the Heian period slowly floated paper hina dolls placed in baskets.
Next, kindergarteners, maiko, and Kyoto Tower's mascot characters cast paper dolls one after another.
After this, general worshipers also performed "nagashibina", and visitors took pictures of the river filled with dolls.
Yuki Ichino, who participated in the costume of the Heian period, said, "Since I have a wedding ceremony in May, I played the role as if it were a practice. It was also an opportunity to wish for my health again, and I felt cheerful." was talking