Setsubun-sai at Gokoku-jinja

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Event:
Setsubun-sai at Gokoku-jinja
Date:
February 3, 2012 3:30 pm
Category:
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Organizer:
Gokokujinja Shrine
Updated:
February 1, 2012
Venue:
Gokoku-jinja Shrine
Phone:
(082)221-5590
Address:
2-21 Motomachi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima-shi, 730-0011, Japan

After a cleansing ritual to ward off evil spirits and bring in good luck performed in the shrine building which includes a little bit of bean throwing, the action moves outside and a shrine priest shoots arrows at a big image of an oni demon head. Finally, there is quite a battle to grab bags of lucky beans thrown from the top of a tower erected in the shrine precinct. Some of the bags of beans have lucky tickets attached to them which you can exchange for prizes.

Read more about Setsubun in Hiroshima here.

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