[Kyoto] The blessings of filial piety @ Gion Festival

●Name Mosozan @ Gion Festival ●Access 686, Summachi, Karasuma-dori Shijoagaru, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 🚗Use nearby parking ●Points 34 mountains and floats are set up at the Gion Festival Each mountain and float has its own blessing and sells chimaki Mosozan is a symbol of filial piety‼️ A mountain named after Mengzong, one of the "Twenty-Four Filial Piety" of China An anecdote about a man who walked through the bamboo forests of a snowy mountain hoping to get his sick mother to eat her favorite bamboo shoots, and finally dug one up, making his mother happy Also known as Sumyama (Bamboo Shoot Mountain) The point is that the pine trees on the mountain are covered in cotton snow #KyotoTourism #TraditionalCulture #GionFestival #Festival #777