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Kyoto celebrates its imperial past
(26 Oct 2010) SHOTLIST
Heian Shrine, Kyoto, October 22nd 2010
1. Various of Participants in The Festival of the Ages (Jidai Matsuri) preparing to depart for the Imperial Palace.
Heian Shrine, Kyoto, October 21st 2010
2. Set up shots of Minamiboujo Takahide
3. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Minamiboujo Takahide, Priest at Heian Shrine
The Festival of the Ages began the year that the Heian Shrine was completed. This was 1895 1,100 years after Kyoto became the Imperial Capital.
Heian Shrine, Kyoto, October 22nd 2010
4. Procession leaves Heian Shrine for the Imperial Palace.
Gosho Imperial Palace, Kyoto, October 22nd 2010
5. Part of the procession reaches the Imperial Palace.
6. Festival participants wait for the Shinto Ceremony to begin.
7. Women in traditional dress wait for ceremony to begin.
8. Various of Shinto ceremony that takes place before the main procession sets out for the return journey to the Heian Shrine.
Heian Shrine, Kyoto, October 21st 2010
9. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Minamiboujo Takahide, Priest at Heian Shrine
The fundamental concept behind the Festival of the Ages was to create a festival that was unique to Kyoto and couldn't be staged anywhere else in Japan or anywhere else in the world.
Gosho Imperial Palace, Kyoto, October 22nd 2010
10. Procession leaving the Imperial Palace. 1st group portray soldiers of the Imperial army at the time of the Meiji Restoration (1868.)
11. Pan of Otsukaiban, administrators in the imperial government.
12. Princess in the Imperial Court during the late Edo period. (Edo era 1603-1868.
13. Foot soldiers in Oda Nobunaga's army. (Late 16th century.)
14. Zoom in on participant dressed as Oda Nobunaga (16th century Shogun.)
Heian Shrine, Kyoto, October 21st 2010
15. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Minamiboujo Takahide, Priest at Heian Shrine
This isn't simply a costumed parade. The costumes that participants wear are replicated with the same materials and according to the same processes as the era that they belong to. Each garment or accessory is aimed to be as close to a contemporary original as possible. The standard to which the costumes are made mean that they would not be out of place in a museum.
Gosho Imperial Palace, Kyoto, October 22nd 2010
16. Various of section of the procession representing Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ox drawn carriage.(Aizuchi Momoyama period 1568-1600.)
17. Various of the section of the procession representing the Yoshino period (1333-1392.)
Yamanouchi elementary school gymnasium, Kyoto, October 21st 2010.
18. Pan of members of the Yamanouchi elementary school PTA (Volunteers who wore the costumes of the Yoshino period during this year's festival)
19. Set up shot of Yamashita Kiyoshi.
20. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Yamashita Kiyoshi, director of the Yoshino section of the procession
The costumes are all made from funds donated by the citizens of Kyoto city.
21. Various of PTA members practicing putting on their costumes for the parade on the following day.
Kyoto City centre, October 22nd 2010
22. Various of procession making its way through the city centre.
23. Zoom in on Yoshino section of the parade approaching the Heian Shrine .
24. Wide of Yoshino section of the parade approaching the Heian Shrine's main gate.
25. Yamashita Kiyoshi on the final stage of the procession.
Heian Shrine, Kyoto, October 22cnd 2010
26. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Yamashita Kiyoshi, director of the Yoshino section of the procession
It amazes me that people in the past went into battle in the kind of armour, helmets and clothing that we are wearing.
27. Participants pose for a group photograph after the procession.
28. Participants resting after procession.
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Hundreds of people took part on the rich pageant called the Festival of the Ages.
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