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Omizutori

お水取り

festival in Japan

Nigatsu-dō · Japan

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760

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Japan
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Omizutori (お水取り), or the annual sacred water-drawing festival, is a Japanese Buddhist festival that takes place in the Nigatsu-dō of Tōdai-ji, Nara, Japan. The festival is the final rite in observance of the two-week-long Shuni-e ceremony. This ceremony is to cleanse the people of their sins as well as to usher in the spring of the new year. Once the Omizutori is completed, the cherry blossoms have started blooming and spring has arrived.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article „Omizutori“ (en.wikipedia.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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