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In the second part of this fresh, unusual series inside the world of Forbidden Kyoto, which outside eyes seldom see, an American scholar of Oriental Studies delves into the Jidai Matsuri festival and Kurama fire festival held in Kyoto on October 22nd each year. They are held on the same day but are otherwise utterly different, the one embodying stasis and the other extraordinary dynamism.
In the fourth part of this fresh, unusual series inside the world of Forbidden Kyoto, which outside eyes seldom see, an American scholar of Oriental Studies observes two rites of the Kyoto winter, Manekiage and the Hanamachi Souken.
This is the fifth in our popular series of programs taking a fresh, distinctive look at forbidden worlds of Kyoto that can usually only be glimpsed for fleeting moments. We have already visited the Gion and other entertainment districts, the home of a tea ceremony school and other usually unvisitable places but now we penetrate Shimabara itself at the very pinnacle of the Japanese entertainment pyramid, the most inaccessible place of them all.