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"Ashikari" means "reaping reeds".
There were a dirt poor husband and wife in Naniwa (Osaka).
The wife work away, and the husband sell the bunch of reeds.
Ashikari yama expresses the old husband reaping reeds.



Yamahoko Jyunkou in Shinmachi



Yamahoko Jyunkou in the Rain

in 2002

Ashikari yama is going back to their town.

Yoiyama, Photo Album

Link : Ashikari-yama Gion Matsuri, Kyoto

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