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Festivals, 27 Sept 2027

Kushi Matsuri (Comb Festival)

Kyoto's comb festival at Yasui Konpiragu, where old combs are blessed and women parade in hairstyles from Japanese history.

The Kushi Matsuri is held on the fourth Monday of September at Yasui Konpiragu shrine in the Gion district of Kyoto, with the support of the city's beauty culture club. People bring old combs and hairpins to be thanked and blessed at a comb mound in the shrine grounds. In the afternoon a procession leaves the shrine in which women, among them maiko and geiko of Gion, wear the hairstyles and dress of each age of Japanese history, from the long loose hair of the Heian court to the shimada knots of the Edo period. A treasure-boat portable shrine joins the parade.

Hairstyles tied to Kushi Matsuri (Comb Festival)

NihongamiThe traditional styles shown in the paradeKanzashiThe hairpins that are thanked and blessedChonmageThe men's topknot shown among historic styles

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