Out with the demons

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Out with the demons

Performers acting as demons dance during the annual mamemaki, a ceremony held to ward off evil spirits and bring good luck, at the main hall of Zojoji Buddhist temple in Tokyo on Sunday.

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On the 2nd, the "Demon Exorcism Ceremony" was held at the Zaodo Hall of Kinpusenji Temple, a World Heritage Site in Yoshino Town, Nara Prefecture, as part of the Setsubun festival. The event was held to invite back demons that had been driven away from all over Japan, chanting "Good fortune in, demons in." The event was named after the story of En no Gyoja, the temple's founder, who used the power of Buddhism to change the demon's mind and make …