時代祭

時代祭は、葵祭、祇園祭と並ぶ「京都三大祭」のひとつで、京都平安神宮の大祭です。
平安神宮の創建と平安遷都1100年を奉祝する行事として、1895年（明治28）に始まりました。第1回目は10月25日に行われ、翌年からは、桓武天皇が794年（延暦13）に長岡京から平安京に都を移された日を“京都の誕生日”として10月22日に行われています。
ご鳳輦に乗った桓武天皇と孝明天皇のご神霊に、京都市街の安泰と繁栄、進化をご覧になっていただき、各時代の行列がご鳳輦のお供をします。行列は明治維新から始まり、次いで江戸、安土桃山、室町、吉野、鎌倉、藤原、延暦と8つの時代を20の列、牛や馬を含む総勢約2000名で構成され、約2kmもの長さで約3時間にもなります。綿密な時代考証を重ねられた衣装、祭具、調度品は1万2000点にも及び、京の伝統の技をもってそれぞれの時代を細部まで再現されており、その豪華絢爛な行列はまさに“生きた時代絵巻”です。 Era Festival, Aoi, in one of the "Kyoto three great festivals," along with the Gion Festival, is a festival of Kyoto Heian Shrine.
 As event to celebration the Heian Shrine of the foundation and peace relocation of the capital 1100 years, began in 1895 (Meiji 28). The first round takes place on October 25, from the following year, Kanmu Emperor 794 years the days that have been moved the capital from Nagaokakyo to (Enryaku 13) to Heian-kyo on October 22, as "Kyoto birthday" It has been made.
To Kanmu emperor and Emperor Kōmei of your Holy Spirit riding on your imperial carriage, prosperity and peace of the Kyoto city, we take a look at the evolution, matrix of each era will be the companion of your imperial carriage. Matrix starts from the Meiji Restoration, then Edo, Momoyama Azuchi, Muromachi, Yoshino, Kamakura, Fujiwara, Enryaku and eight times the 20 columns, is composed of a total of about 2000 people, including cattle and horses, the length of the also about 2km in will also be about 3 hours. Thorough era historical research the superimposed costumes, utensils, furniture spans even to 12,000 points, has been reproduced until the details of each of the times with the work of Kyoto tradition, it is just "living the luxurious gorgeous matrix era picture scroll ".