July 25th
Tenjin Festival
Dating back to 949 A.D. the Tenjin Festival held in Osaka, Japan, enables the people to purge themselves of sickness and ill health. Traditionally, each participant brings a sheet of paper into the shrine, where he or she will then make a paper doll. The doll is then rubbed over the body and then taken to the Dojima River and dropped in. It is believed that all sickness and ill health are transferred to the doll and dispelled with the discarding of the paper.
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