During Kanda Matsuri festival, portable shrines (Mikoshi) with a phœnix on top are brought in religious procession to Kanda Myojin shrine. Because of this event (one of the three most important in Tokyo, every odd year), which is intended to honour the deities (Kami) of this Shintō temple and to strengthen links between members of several communities, a lot of people and ‘phœnix’ merge at the same place.
But this legendary bird in Asia is it the same one as the phœnix of Ancient times in Greece and Rome? What is their different symbolism?
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