I wrote about mikoshi (神輿、みこし) at exactly the same time last year (here), so I won’t bore you with the whole explanation of what one is and what they represent. I was, however, out and about yesterday and could not help but come across team after team of mikoshi carriers (in the 5 minutes it takes me to ride to the next station, I saw 4). I really like the whole atmosphere, with all the yelling and moving and shaking and colour, so I stopped a few times to take some pictures.
I’ve been fooling around with “selective desaturation” in Photoshop recently (see more examples here), so I thought I’d combine the two as a way of adding something new-ish to the the mikoshi-picture-taking thing:
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