ABSTRACT
Though there may, perhaps, be people who are not conversant with the names Kamo Mioya Jinja (賀茂御祖神社) and Kamo Wakeikazuchi Jinja (賀茂別雷神社), it may I think be safely asserted that there is hardly anyone in Japan who has not heard of the Aoi-Matsuri, the joint festival of these two ancient shrines, and, yet, this festival was a comparatively late development in their history, and is less a festival, in the strict sense of the word, than a state visit to the shrines of the Imperial representative.
