The Sanja Matsuri is a festival held annually on a weekend in mid-May at Asakusa Shrine in Asakusa, Tokyo, which is a Shinto facility located adjacent to Sensouji Temple, a Buddhist facility. During the festival, the three deities enshrined at Asakusa Shrine spend one night with Kannon-sama at Sensoji Temple before returning to the shrine and visiting the town on portable shrines called mikoshi. On this night, the Japanese people go home quietly, which is a change from the previous…
