About this site

This site presents the festival floats (yatai) of Mori town, Shizuoka Prefecture, and the carvings on them, based on the three-volume record “Enshu Mori-machi no Matsuri: Yatai Monogatari” (Mori, Kita and Minami volumes) by Masashi Iwamoto, who researched and photographed the festival for over sixty years.

How content is shown

Entries follow the original books. Photographs are currently scans of the books’ black-and-white pages, and will be replaced with the original photographs as they are found. Items that have not yet been checked are marked as under review. The English edition is published item by item, after each translation has been checked against the Japanese original; Japanese is the original text.