Nihonbashi bridge cleaning ritual
Every 4th sunday of July the Nihonbashi bridge is filled with businessmen, local inhabitants, children, the fire-brigade and neighborhood associations all busy with cleaning the Nihonbashi bridge. Read More…
Nihonbashi bridge cleaning ritual
Scenario of the Nihonbashi washing ceremony
Nihonbashi bridge cleaning ritual
Water collection
The purest varieties of water are collected from ten different areas in Japan to clean the Zero point on the Nihonbashi bridge Read More…
Nihonbashi bridge cleaning ritual
Zero point
A bronze plate in the middle of the Nihonbashi Bridge marks the zero point for the roads in Japan. All the distances to other places in Japan are measured from this mark.… Read More…
Nihonbashi bridge cleaning ritual
Immaculateness
It seems that the washing ceremony on the Nihonbashi bridge not only relates to the bridge in its physicality but that it also functions as a cleaning ritual to celebrate the bridge… Read More…
