The Jidai matsuri is one of Kyoto's biggest festivals. It includes a parade in which participants are dressed in authentic costumes from the Edo period, between 1603 and 1868. The first festival was organised in 1895, 1100 years after Kyoto was founded and mainly out of fear that Kyoto would lose its status when the capital was moved to Edo (present-day Tokyo). The festival starts early in the morning with the display of the mikoshi (the portable shrines) carried from the old Imperial Palace. The five-hour procession begins in the afternoon, with about two thousand participants dressed as samurai, military figures and the 'normal' people in costumes that are often centuries old.
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