Pray for business prosperity Traditional `` fortune lending '' Nikko Tochigi January 3 15:56

At a temple on the top of a mountain in Nikko City, Tochigi Prefecture, a traditional event called "Fukusen loan" was held to borrow money in hope of business prosperity

The “Fukusen Rental”, which is said to have continued since the Edo period, is a Bishamonten temple on the top of the mountain at Rinoji Temple in Nikko, a World Heritage Site, and is held every year on New Year's Day.

Even before dawn, many worshipers, including business owners and business owners, gathered and handed the paper with the amount you want to borrow to the monk.If you write `` one million cars '', it will be 100 yen, `` 10 million cars '' If so, I was borrowing 1000 yen fortune.

If you wish for business prosperity and fulfill it, it will be a practice of doubling it back next year.

The worshipers also received a bill called a "suido", in which eight kinds of bills such as marriage and house security were sandwiched between bamboo sticks. Then, waiting for the coming light, he was singing three singing wishes for world peace.

A woman in her twenties who worshiped with a friend said, "I have borrowed 5 million cars and would like to use it to help the company thrive."