A special scaled down “mikoshi” portable shrine for children featured for the first time in the 700-year history of the bustling Sanja Matsuri festival in Tokyo’s downtown Asakusa district.

People bearing a "mikoshi" portable shrine on their shoulders descend steep stone steps at Sunosaki Jinja Shinto shrine in ...

Officially called "Tenjinsai Josei Omikoshi," the Gal Mikoshi parade ... But she joined with others in practice carrying the portable shrine, loudly chanting "wasshoi, wasshoi" and fixed the ...