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Japanese pray for end of pandemic in annual ice bath ritual

Participants wearing protective face masks amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, pray as they take an ice-cold bath during a ceremony to purify their souls and to wish for overcoming the pandemic at the Teppozu Inari shrine in Tokyo, Japan, January 10, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

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TOKYO (JAPAN) – A dozen people took part in the annual ice water bath Shinto ritual at a Tokyo shrine on Sunday to purify the soul and to pray for the end of COVID-19 pandemic.

Men wearing traditional loin clothes and women dressed in white robes clapped and chanted before going entering the icy cold water, which is an annual event at Teppou-zu Inari Shrine. The event was scaled down this year due to the health crisis, compared to over a hundred in early 2020. Spectators were not allowed at the event.

After doing warming-up exercises and chanting under a clear sky with outside temperatures at 5.1 degree Celsius (41.18 Fahrenheit), the nine male and three female participants went into a bath filled with cold water and large ice blocks.   “I prayed that the coronavirus comes to an end as soon as possible,” said 65-year-old participant Shinji Ooi, who heads the Shrine’s ‘Yayoikai’ parishioner group, after the ritual.

Fewer participants at the Shinto ritual made the water extra cold, participant Naoaki Yamaguchi said..

“Normally we have more participants and it makes the water temperature a little bit warmer. But this year, there were just twelve people, so it (the cold) was crazy,” the 47-year-old said.

The shrine added the theme of “warding off epidemics” to the annual event, which is held on the second Sunday of each year and is now in its 66th year.

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