By JIRO OMURA/ Staff Writer
December 20, 2019 at 18:40 JST
Clean-up starts after Kojun Otani, the chief priest, waves a broom over a cloth covering a sacred cabinet and miniature shrine on Dec. 20 at Nishi-Honganji temple in Kyoto’s Shimogyo Ward. (Yoshiko Sato)
KYOTO--Followers at two temples here cast out a year's worth of dust on the morning of Dec. 20 in an annual tradition that dates back about 500 years. [Read More]
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