KANDA MATSURI
May 9 ～ May 15
Kanda Myojin Omikoshi Togyo or Kanda Matsuri Festival at Kanda Myojin Shrine, Chiyoda-ku. The
festival is one of the three grandest festivals in Tokyo.
KANDA MYOUJIN
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KANDA MATSURI
May 9 ～ May 15
Kanda Myojin Omikoshi Togyo or Kanda Matsuri Festival at Kanda Myojin Shrine, Chiyoda-ku.
The festival is one of the three grandest festivals in Tokyo.
KANDA MYOUJIN
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Taken during at Kanda Matsuri (神田祭) or the Kanda Festival, is one of the three great Shinto festivals of Tokyo, along with the Sanja Matsuri (May 14 to May 16, 2010) and Sannō Matsuri (month of June). But the festival this year was rather small in scale.
The festival started in the early 1600s as a celebration of Tokugawa Ieyasu's decisive victory at the battle of Sekigahara and was continued as a display of the prosperity of the Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo period.
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“You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed”
Rabindranath Tagore
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Kanda Myoujin or Kanda Shrine (神田明神) was first built about 1,270 year ago at present Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. It was moved to Kanda-dai (神田台) at the beginning of the Edo era, in 1603 due to an expansion program of the Edo castle, and further changed it's location to the general site in 1616. Kanda Myojin shrine was much revered in old days by the warrior class of people. Especially in the Edo period, the general Tokugawa paid high respect to this shrine, and later it proved to be the object of the general public.
The Kanda Shrine is dedicated to the Daikoku-sama, Ebisu-sama, and Taira-no-Masakado-sama deities.
Kanda Shrine (神田明神)
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