Carrying a portable shrine on their shoulders, children participants all clad in traditional happi coats, parade through precincts of the Kanda Myojin shrine during the annual summer festival in Tokyo, Saturday, May 9, 2015. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)

Carrying a portable shrine, on their shoulders, participants all clad in traditional happi coats, parade through precincts of the Kanda Myojin shrine during the annual summer festival in Tokyo, Saturday, May 9, 2015. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)

A man wearing a mask of a Tengu or Japanese long-nosed goblin, attends a ritual for the Kanda festival at the Kanda-Myojin shrine in Tokyo May 9, 2015. The festival dating back to the Edo period is one of the three major festivals in Tokyo. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)

Shinto priests and Shinto studies specialty students attend a ritual for the Kanda festival at the Kanda-Myojin shrine in Tokyo May 9, 2015. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)

Shinto studies specialty students in traditional costumes prepare before a ritual for the Kanda festival at the Kanda-Myojin shrine in Tokyo May 9, 2015. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)

Shinto studies specialty students in traditional costumes push a Horen, a portable shrine, after a ritual during the Kanda festival at the Kanda-Myojin shrine in Tokyo May 9, 2015. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)

Shinto studies specialty students in traditional costumes gather before a ritual for the Kanda festival at the Kanda-Myojin shrine in Tokyo May 9, 2015. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)

Women in traditional costumes gather before a ritual for the Kanda festival at the Kanda-Myojin shrine in Tokyo May 9, 2015. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)

Shinto priests, Shrine parishioners and Shinto studies specialty students attend a ritual for the Kanda festival at the Kanda-Myojin shrine in Tokyo May 9, 2015. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)

Shrine parishioners gather before a parade to mark the Kanda festival at the Kanda-Myojin shrine in Tokyo May 9, 2015. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)

A Shinto priest walks past Horens, portable shrines, during a ritual for the Kanda festival at the Kanda-Myojin shrine in Tokyo May 9, 2015. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)

Shinto studies specialty students in traditional costumes push a Horen, a portable shrine, after a ritual during the Kanda festival at the Kanda-Myojin shrine in Tokyo May 9, 2015. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)

Shrine parishioners and Shinto studies specialty students in traditional costumes push a Horen, a portable shrine, during a parade to mark the Kanda festival in Tokyo May 9, 2015. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)

A Shinto studies specialty student in traditional costume is helped by a staff to prepare before a ritual for the Kanda festival at the Kanda-Myojin shrine in Tokyo May 9, 2015. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)

Shinto priests, Shrine parishioners and Shinto studies specialty students attend a ritual for the Kanda festival at the Kanda-Myojin shrine in Tokyo May 9, 2015. (Photo by Toru Hanai/Reuters)

Local residents carry portable shrines into the Kanda-Myojin shrine during the Kanda festival in Tokyo, Japan, May 10, 2015. (Photo by Yuya Shino/Reuters)

A local resident carries a flower umbrella to lead a portable shrine at the Kanda-Myojin shrine during the Kanda festival in Tokyo, Japan, May 10, 2015. (Photo by Yuya Shino/Reuters)

Carrying a portable shrine on their shoulders, participants all clad in traditional happi coats, parade through precincts of the Kanda Myojin shrine during the annual summer festival in Tokyo, Saturday, May 9, 2015. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)

Carrying a portable shrine, on their shoulders, participants all clad in traditional happi coats, parade through precincts of the Kanda Myojin shrine during the annual summer festival in Tokyo, Saturday, May 9, 2015. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)

Carrying a portable shrine on their shoulders, participants all clad in traditional happi coats, parade through precincts of the Kanda Myojin shrine during the annual summer festival in Tokyo, Saturday, May 9, 2015. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)

Participants prepare to parade through precincts of the Kanda Myojin shrine during the annual summer festival in Tokyo, Saturday, May 9, 2015. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)