Two Festivals, Two Worlds

Overview

In the second part of this fresh, unusual series inside the world of Forbidden Kyoto, which outside eyes seldom see, an American scholar of Oriental Studies delves into the Jidai Matsuri festival and Kurama fire festival held in Kyoto on October 22nd each year. They are held on the same day but are otherwise utterly different, the one embodying stasis and the other extraordinary dynamism.