GREAT TEMPLE PROCESSION AT NIKKO.
This proat festival with all its weird and strange surroundings, hold on June Ist and L'nd, 1904, in honour of the success of the Japanese armies, presents one of the most expressive and attractive insights into Japanese customs and religious rites. Miles and miles of strangely bedecked personages, all symbolical and representative of the nation's customs, passed before the gaze of the elated populace, and were received with the due reverence and benign demeanour peculiar to Eastern races. First, the Sakaki (=acred tree) carried by one hundred and fifty white attired men, with two guards; then the Tengu, the Shiahi. the sacred dancing women, priests on horseback, guncarriers, bow-carriers. spear-men, armoured men, children, masked men, monkey figures, Shinto priests, musicians, all helped to complete a cavalcade of weird and sensational interest. This marvellous procession will be displayed by the Williamson Bio-Tableau during its forthcoming season at the Theatre Royal. 852
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12174, 20 April 1905, Page 8
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