Aoi Matsuri

I had a lecture on that day...but of course Aoi Matsuri which is one of the biggest fistivals her in Kyoto is a good reason to escape the lecture >_0
a lot of people wearing traditional clothes walking in Kyoto streets from the imperial palace to Shimogamo jinja and then to Kamigamo jinja .Representing some parts of Genji tale. Which I don't know much about it... but they are doing that since the 7th century...

and this is some Yabusame performance (Shooting arrows while riding horses) in shimogamo shrine.