Adorned Rakes

Terrible photo, sorry.

 

These are heavily adorned rakes for the Tori no Ichi festival.

 

They are actually quite expensive--a large one can easily cost over 10万円 ($1000).

 

When a customer buys a large one, the store owners (and other passerbys) clap their hands loudly.

 

The one I got was small :-)

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Uploaded on November 10, 2005
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