In May, they postponed it for now and although the reasonable thing to do would be to cancel it altogether, Asakusa Jinja, the shrine holding the Sanja Matsuri, Tokyo's biggest festival, decided to have it last weekend but in a Covid-19 variations. So instead of the shrine's three big omikoshi and the neighborhoods' 150, only a big one came out and it was processed around Asakusa on a truck. The procession was: first two motorcycle policemen and a truck with the shrine's crew...
...then another truck with musicians playing special matsuri music (matsuri bayashi/祭囃子)...
...then the shrine's main omikoshi, Ichi no Miya (一之宮)...
...and in the end, the shrine's priests.
Here, I got it just at the moment it was passing in front of Kaminarimon.
(For a bigger version of these pictures both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore" set on Flickr. For pictures of how the real Sanja Matsuri is there are four more albums there!)
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