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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🔕

   #Kyoto #Ebisujinja #Ebisu #恵比寿

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     One of the most common sights at the festival is 'fukuzasa' (福笹 'lucky bamboo grass'), bamboo fronds adorned with auspicious symbols.

     The 18th head of Ebisu-jinja first promoted bamboo as symbol of the god and festival.

     Photo thanks🙇 - ameblo.jp/eiaiji/

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     Ebisu Festival
     vinegar salesman decked out
     in formal wear
     恵比寿講酢売に袴着せにけり
     -Matsuo Bashō (松尾芭蕉).

     Ebisu-jinja's 30th head priest was also the first to invite vendors to set up stalls, creating a carnival-like atmosphere that survives to this day.

     #Kyoto #festival #Ebisujinja #haiku #MatsuoBasho #Basho

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     Hanging from Ebisu-jinja's gate is an image of Ebisu attached to a kumade (garden rake). It is customary for visitors to toss coins up, hoping they falls in the rake. Kumade (熊手) are symbols of 'raking in' good fortune, and you often see small versions as charms.

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     In the Meiji period businesses used the festival as an excuse to improve the post-New Year slowdown by holding special 'seimonbarai' (誓文払い) 'bargain sales' on the same days.

     The sales in Ōsaka and Kyōto were known as 'Ebisukō Ōuridashi' (えびす講大売り出し).

     #Japan #Ebisu #Kyoto #Ebisujinja #sales

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     The fast growing grass is strong and hardy, qualities people wish to pass on to their own businesses. As the leaves aged and yellowed they were thought to look like old coins.

     It was the shrine's 30th head that struck upon the idea of selling auspicious objects to adorn the fronds.

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     On the south side of Ebisu-jinja's (ゑびす神社) main shrine building is a worn board. After praying before the shrine it is customary to knock on the board (to wake the somewhat hard of hearing Ebisu) and repeat the request to ensure it is answered.

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