Okaya Daruma Festival

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Okaya Daruma Festival ... 岡谷だるま祭り
Okaya Daruma Matsuri

Okaya Town, Nagano Prefecture

The Daruma Matsuri is held every year in February at the city's Daruma Hall. A variety of large and small Daruma dolls are sold at the market and at the same time, the old Daruma dolls are purified by fire during a memorial service. The Daruma Hall is crowded with many people who want to share the good luck of the auspicious Nanakorobi Yaoki Daruma.
(Nanakorobi Yaoki = fall down 7 times and get up 8 times = this doll never gives up !)

Daruma Matsuri (Dharma Doll Festival)

...www.city.okaya.lg.jp/


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Preparations for the Daruma Festival
Koikawa Daruma Hall

岡谷市東銀座の小井川だるま堂



Old Daruma Dolls are burned in the ritual fire and people buy new ones for the New Year. People from Suwa and the Ina Plains of Nagano come here.
There are 17 different types and sizes of Daruma dolls (of the Takasaki type) and more than 1800 are sold.
source : www8.shinmai.co.jp

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On the first day of the festival, a new eye is painted for Daruma.
On the second day, the old dolls are burned. 浄焼供養






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at Tabineki Shop 旅猫雑貨店にて

- source : tabineko.seesaa.net

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