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Oni wa soto - Setsubun
Arts & Entertainment Festivals 

Setsubun: demons, beans, fish heads, sushi and screaming children

January 25, 2025February 11, 2025 Paul Walsh 12982 Views Setsubun, Winter

On Setsubun people across Japan look forward to spring witb demons, beans, sushi rolls, and stinky fish!

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Setsubun water purification at Toukasan

Setsubun Water Purification Ritual at Toukasan

Enruji Temple (A.K.A. Toukasan) commemorates Setsubun on the last Sunday of January with a cold water purification ceremony.

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Setsubun at Sumiyoshi Shrine

February 2, 2016February 6, 2016 Paul Walsh 6600 Views Setsubun, Winter

Many people from surrounding neighborhoods gather at the riverside Sumiyoshi Shrine on the afternoon of February 3 to commemorate Setsubun.

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News 

Cute “ogre and club” bread sets for Setsubun

February 1, 2015February 1, 2018 Paul Walsh 4613 Views Setsubun, Winter

Oni ni kanabou [鬼に金棒] is a Japanese saying which literally means giving an iron club [kanabou/金棒] to an ogre [oni/鬼],

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Photos from Setsubun at Gokoku Shrine

February 4, 2013February 1, 2018 jjwalsh 4119 Views Setsubun, Winter

Peter Peberhardt is getting around Hiroshima’s winter festivals. Following his set of January’s Tondo Matsuri on the beach next to

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Setsubun-sai at Gokuku-jinja

February 6, 2012February 1, 2018 jjwalsh 7204 Views Setsubun, Winter

Oni wa soto, fuku wa uchi, “Out with the Devil and in with the luck” is the traditional cry of

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