Illustrated Scroll On Paper Entitled On Manuscript Label On Outside Of Beginning Of Scroll Kamo

by Kyoto Kamo Aoi Matsuri No Emaki

$9,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Scroll on paper 340 x 15,130 mm. , silk brocade outer endpaper at beginning, wooden core roller. Kyoto : late Edo copy. The Aoi Matsuri is one of the three most famous annual festivals in Kyoto; it now takes place on 15 of May each year and is held by the important Kamo shrines, the Kamigamo Shrine and Shimogamo Shrine. The festival’s origins can be traced to rites performed in the sixth century to appease the gods and to pray for bountiful harvests.

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