Kitano baikasai

Today, the Japanese of Kyoto celebrate Kitano baikasai, the plum blossom festival. A thousand-year-old celebration, it is the occasion of a giant tea ceremony and marks the death of Sugawara no Michizane, a famous scholar and poet who was exiled by the Fujiwara clan. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #February 25 #Japan #Kyoto #Kitano #Baikasai #Michizane