This was just the oddest thing. I was in Tokyo waiting in the restaurant for the rest of the group to come, and I look out the window on a busy street and I see a bunch of people wearing green clothes carrying a....what do you call it...it's a portable alter that carries the gods around...omikoshi(??) around. Now I see this happen once or twice a year in Sanda, and even that strikes me as odd, but Sanda is in the country so I can understand people sticking to those old traditions....but here in Toyko? In the middle of a busy street?!
I don't understand it. Do the gods here have to take certain route to get to their destination? Why's it gotta be on a busy street where they end up stopping traffic? It's awesome how old traditions are kept alive in modern times, but I still am so surprised by it whenever I see it happening before my eyes. You don't know what to make of it.
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