Today was the Saga Matsuri, a Japanese festival in the Saga area, north of Arashiyama. Several portable shrines with a local deity inside (mikoshi) are taken out and carried around the neighborhood. Many residents and businesses offer drinks: water, sake, beer, tea; and in gratitude the members perform a dance with the shrine, rocking it back and forth and generally making a lot of exuberant noise.

今日は嵐山で嵯峨祭がありました。地元の神様を祀った神輿を数基持ち出し、近所を練り歩きます。 多くの住民や企業が水、酒、ビール、お茶などの飲み物を提供し、感謝の気持ちを込めて神輿を上下に揺らしながら踊りを披露し、大いに盛り上がる。