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'Wind and string music'. The name of a festival held at the Itsukushima jinja at Miyajima, Hiroshima prefecture on June 17th by the old lunar calendar. The famous torii at Itsukushima is in the sea, and mikoshi are ceremonially carried across the water and placed before it. Gagaku is performed on a stage formed by three boats joined side by side which process to the accompaniment of an orchestra consisting in three stringed, three percussion and three wind instruments A Popular Dictionary of Shinto (Brian Bocking) |
