Tōka Ebisu Festival
Kyoto Ebisu Shrine’s major five-day festival for business prosperity, featuring lucky bamboo branches and large crowds of worshipers.
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Tōka Ebisu Festival
Kyoto Ebisu Shrine’s major five-day festival for business prosperity, featuring lucky bamboo branches and large crowds of worshipers.
Fukuzasa Lucky Bamboo Blessing Ritual
Lucky bamboo branches are blessed in a special ritual by shrine maidens and given or sold to visitors seeking business prosperity.
Lucky Coin Toss
Visitors toss spare change toward the rake-shaped kumade beneath Ebisu’s image, symbolizing the wish to rake in fortune.
Knocking on Ebisu’s Door Prayer Ritual
After praying at the main sanctuary, some worshipers go around to the left side and rap on the wooden panel before repeating their prayer so that Ebisu will hear it.
Miyako Shichifukujin Seven Lucky Gods Pilgrimage
A Kyoto pilgrimage visiting the seven shrines and temples of the Seven Lucky Gods and collecting a special calligraphy stamp for each deity, including Ebisu Shrine.