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What's this? Fukagawa Hachiman Festival photos by Philbert Ono. Held in mid-August in Koto Ward, Tokyo, this is the festival's full-scale version held once every three years (1996, 1999, 2002, etc.).

Joint Procession of Portable Shrines
Aug. 18, 1996

This is what awaits as the mikoshi bearers approach the shrine. This is a truck filled with knee-deep water. People armed with buckets throw a rapid fire of water at each mikoshi that comes along.

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