Clock festival held at shrine celebrating Japan's 1st clock

Women clad in ancient Japanese court dresses proceed holding clocks during an annual clock festival on June 10, 2016, at a Shinto shrine in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture in western Japan. Omi Shrine enshrines Emperor Tenji (626-672), said to be the founding father of the clock time system in Japan, as its deity. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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