Many Shinto festivals are featuring parades, in which the enshrined kami ("gods") are walked around the neighborhood in a portable shrine called mikoshi.
This beautiful tradition is believed to originate 1200 years ago, when the kami of Usa Hachiman Shrine in Kyushu was brought to the capital in a palanquin normally used by the emperor.
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