Osaka Imamiya Ebisu Shrine, Ebisu Matsuri Festival. Ebisu is the god of business prosperity, so Ebisu Matsuri is the festival for prosperous business. Bamboo grass is thought as a good luck item in the festival. The shrine maidens are called ‘Fuku Musume’. They decorate bamboo branches. The bamboo grass is free, but the decorations are not free. Most of the decoration is 1500 yen each. There is anothre offering box at the back of the shrine. and there are Dora gongs each side of it. It is believed that Ebisu is hard of hearing, so we must inform him by ringing the Dora.
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