Gion Festival (1984)

Gion Festival (click to see Heron dance performed during Gion festival in Kyoto).

In 1984, my former husband and I welcomed a young Japanese woman into our home as part of a cultural exchange program, which I believe was called The Cultural Homestay Institute and which brought a group of young Japanese women and men to our small town in the state of Washington in August of that year. A friend of hers from the group visited our home and saw the untitled painting I was working on. He said that it reminded him of a float from the Gion Festival. I tried to create a link to the Wikipedia entry for the Gion Festival, but got an error message: Your HTML cannot be accepted: Tag is not closed. As far as I can tell, the tag was closed. Anyone else had trouble like this?