Jidai Matsuri

Gallery links at the bottom of this post!

Jidai Matsuri (時代祭り) is a parade that includes elements from the 1,100 years or so that Kyoto was the capital of Japan. For perspective, this is nearly five times the length that the United States has been recognized as a country. On the other hand, Commodore Perry might have a couple of things to say about these kinds of things.

In any case, there's really not much more that can be said about the parade. I think I prefer Apple Blossom over this one, as at least the Grand Parade has girls in short skirts in quantity. Massed cheerleaders are awfully hard to beat, you know?

I think my favorite part of the Jidai Matsuri parade was when one guy's horse decided he wanted to go the other way for a while. They stopped the whole remaining part of the procession while the handlers got the horse to turn around. This happened with three or four of them, but one took the entire six-lane street to turn around.
There were a couple of touchy spots where I was worried about the stability of the horses, as they kept ending up going sideways by the corner, and if you've been around horses, you know they don't strafe well.
Actually, I think you can circle-strafe in Dynasty Warriors, but... Well, you can do a lot of things in Dynasty Warriors.

Galleries

The first gallery contains all the pictures I thought were particularly good. This is the gallery I'd recommend to anybody in general. This is the top 20% or so of the pictures I took, and I really like some of them. If you just need more pictures of the parade than are here, there's the...

Second gallery, which includes the first gallery and a further ~150 of the pictures that I took at Jidai Matsuri. It consists of pretty much all the pictures I thought weren't boring. I took another 200 or so that came out just fine, but they're not worth including due to space restrictions and me being lazy. Mostly the latter.
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