Tale 109 — The straw-doll sending of the Amekaze Festival
Around Bon, there was a custom belonging to the Amekaze Festival in which a straw doll larger than a person was made, its face drawn on paper, and it was carried out and set up at a fork in the road. A host household was chosen, and after a feast, flutes and drums were sounded as the doll was carried out to the crossroads, where people sang, 'We festival the wind and rain of the two hundred and tenth day.'
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