A centuries-old festival in Japan brings Shinto traditions and towering floats to the streets
In Japan, the Gion Matsuri festival brings towering floats to the streets in Shinto religious processions that are rooted in rituals dating back more than 1,000 years and that were intended to ward off epidemics
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