1000 samurai procession in Nikko

Shinto priests carry a portable shrine during the biannual Hyakumonozoroe Sennin Musha Gyoretsu (the 1,000 Samurais Procession Festival) at Nikko Toshogu Shrine in Tochigi Prefecture on Oct. 17, 2015. The procession is the revival of the ceremony held in 1617 when the divine spirit of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, was moved from Mt. Kuno in Shizuoka Prefecture to Nikko. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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