Yesterday in southeast Asakusa, in the fourth compartment of the Kotobuki neighborhood (寿四): at first we thought it was some small local matsuri from the ones that precede Aaskusa's Sanja Matsuri but we saw that the omikoshi was not carried by people but by a truck. And as they told us (and we later saw ourselves) they were welcoming it as it was returning from the Miyamoto Unosuke workshop (宮本卯之助) that has been making and repairing omikoshi in Asakusa since 1861, where they had sent it for renovation in preparation for Sanja Matsuri. Ten years in Asakusa, this was the first time I saw something like that and I couldn't not post it!
(For a bigger version of these pictures both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore" set on Flickr).
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