Childrens' Lantern Float, Kojimachi 1,2, 3-chome Block Association, Sanno Festival

Childrens' Lantern Float, Kojimachi 1,2, 3-chome Block Association, Sanno Festival

Torii Kiyonaga

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Since Edo times, the Sanno Festival has been celebrated in alternate years in the sixth month at the Hie Shrine in Tokyo. Because one of the deities associated with the shrine, Sanno Gongen, was a tutelary deity of the Tokugawa family, the festival enjoyed shogunal patronage. Then, as now, neighborhood groups carried portable shrines (mikoshi) and paraded floats of their own design through the streets and into Edo castle.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Childrens' Lantern Float, Kojimachi 1,2, 3-chome Block Association, Sanno FestivalChildrens' Lantern Float, Kojimachi 1,2, 3-chome Block Association, Sanno FestivalChildrens' Lantern Float, Kojimachi 1,2, 3-chome Block Association, Sanno FestivalChildrens' Lantern Float, Kojimachi 1,2, 3-chome Block Association, Sanno FestivalChildrens' Lantern Float, Kojimachi 1,2, 3-chome Block Association, Sanno Festival

The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works, providing an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.