Woodblock print of a bustling Imamiya Ebisu Shrine. Image thanks - https://ukiyo-e.org/

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   The Tōka Ebisu faith (十日えびす信仰) spread to Kyōto from Imamiya-jinja (今宮神社) in Ōsaka in the mid-Edo period, but it was Kyōto's merchants that helped to popularize the festival nationwide.

   So crowded is the festival that the shrine's bell ropes are often removed🔕

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