I went to the Ebisu festival a couple of weeks ago. This is a festival held in Imamiya in Osaka. Ebisu is the God of Luck and Merchants and you are given bamboo stalks for good luck as shown in the picture above. These are free but you are expected to adorn them with the trinkets like the fish and the other objects hanging from it to enhance the luck. These items go for 1000 Yen each (which is about five pounds or ten dollars.) You put them in your place of business for the year and if all goes well it`ll have good fortune. When the next festival comes around a year later, you bring back the shoot and trinkets to be burned and get a new stalk and trinkets to replace them.
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