1000-person procession staged in Nikko

1000-person procession staged in Nikko

NIKKO, Japan - A 1000-person procession is staged at the Toshogu Shrine in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, on May 18, reproducing a procession in 1617 when the ashes of the Tokugawa Shogunate founder, Tokugawa Ieyasu, were transferred to Nikko from Shizuoka Prefecture.

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