Kasuga Wakamiya
Matsuri

Between folk festivals and ancestral ceremonies, Japan is a country decidedly rich in symbols and rituals. In this it reminds me a lot of southern Italy, which between paganism and Christianity is dotted with festivities and traditions. Nara with the Kasuga Wakamiya Matsuri showcases with more than 500 figures customs and traditions of traditional Japan (from the Heian to the Edo period). The festival is an invocation to the end of the epidemic and the grace of a good harvest. Themes that are definitely still very relevant today. In the central days of December at the Wakamiya-jinja Shrine you can see traditional and ancient performances such as Kagura, Bugaku, Dengaku. Rituals between dance and music that will see the spirit of Wakamiya move to a small place called Otabisho, near the entrance to the Kasuga shrine