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Omizutori, The Sacred Water Drawing Festival!!

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Jejak Panda Hai.. Bertemu Lagi Di Website Kesayangan Anda situs bandarq      Omizutori ,  or the annual, sacred  Water Drawing Festival , is a Japanese Buddhist pameran that takes place in the  NIgatsu-do  of  Todai-ji,  Nara, Japan. The pameran is the selesai rite in observance of the two week long Shuni-e ceremony. This ceremony is to cleanse the people of their sins as well as to usher in spring of the New Year. Once the Omizutori is completed, the cherry blossoms have started blooming and spring has arrived.     The rite occurs on the last night of the Shuni-e ceremony, when monks bearing torches come to the  Wakasa Well , underneath the Nigatsu-do Hall, which according to legend only springs forth water once a year. The ceremony has occurred in the Nigatsu-do of the imperial temple at Nara, of the Todai-ji, since it was first founded. These annual festivals have been dated back to the year of 752. The earliest known records of the use of an incense seal during the