ずいき祭と上七軒の舞妓さん : Zuiki Festival and Maiko-san（Kamishichiken, Kyoto）

2019年10月4日に行われました、ずいき祭の還幸祭巡行を撮影いたしました。上七軒はたくさんの人で賑わっていました。

Kitano Tenmangū
The shrine was first built in 947 to appease the angry spirit of bureaucrat, scholar and poet Sugawara no Michizane, who had been exiled as a result of political maneuvers of his enemies in the Fujiwara clan.

The shrine became the object of Imperial patronage during the early Heian period. In 965, Emperor Murakami ordered that Imperial messengers be sent to report important events to the guardian kami of Japan. These messenger, called heihaku, were initially presented to 16 shrines; and in 991, Emperor Ichijō added three more shrines to Murakami's list — including Kitano.

From 1871 through 1946, the Kitano Tenman-gū was officially designated one of the Kanpei-chūsha (官幣中社), meaning that it stood in the second rank of government supported shrines.