Parade of Precariously Tall Floats on Shiga Prefecture

Video footage taken at the Otsu Matsuri festival held on Oct. 8 in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, shows 13 towering, ornately decorated “hikiyama” floats being pulled by teams of parishioners past crowds lined along the streets of the city and families peering out from their upper windows of their houses. The floats reach a height of 6 meters and bear drummers and flutists. The festival is said to go back about 400 years and was designated an important intangible folk cultural property by the Japanese government in March 2016.
Video footage taken at the Otsu Matsuri festival held on Oct. 8 in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, shows 13 towering, ornately decorated “hikiyama” floats being pulled by teams of parishioners past crowds lined along the streets of the city and families peering out from their upper windows of their houses. The floats reach a height of 6 meters and bear drummers and flutists. The festival is said to go back about 400 years and was designated an important intangible folk cultural property by the Japanese government in March 2016.
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Credit:
The Asahi Shimbun Video
Editorial #:
859929816
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The Asahi Shimbun Video
Date created:
08 October, 2017
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Clip length:
00:00:42:20
Location:
Ostu, Japan
Mastered to:
QuickTime 8-bit Photo-JPEG HD 1920x1080 29.97p
Source:
The Asahi Shimbun Video
Object name:
20171008otsufesshiga.mov