Brief History of the Gion Festival
Dec 11, 2023
Gion Festival history has been going strong for over 1000 years. So it must have been doing something right, even now. Click here to find out more.
The roots of the Gion Festival or matsuri reach to 869 C.E.. At that time, a terrible plague spread throughout the city, killing many people. Then, as now, July in Kyoto was extremely hot, very humid, and prone to torrential downpours. These formed ideal conditions for outbreaks of cholera, dysentery, malaria and other epidemics. Remember, this was before modern medicine and sanitation.
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