In professional baseball, Hiroshima, manager Takahiro Arai, who will be in charge of the team from this season, performed a goma ceremony in front of the flames at Mount Koya in Wakayama Prefecture, wishing for the team to win the league title and become the best in Japan.
Hiroshima's coach Arai has been practicing goma every year since 19 years ago when he was active, in order to train his mental side and make use of it for playing on the ground. .
In the main hall of the temple, approximately 2,000 gomagi trees, which are said to drive away worldly desires, were burned one after another, and Director Arai continued to chant sutras in his early morning garb as the flames rose.
And at the end, he repeated in a loud voice, "Hiroshima victory, fulfillment of my wish," and even though I was appointed as the manager, I hoped that the team would win the league championship and be the best in Japan through the approximately one and a half hours of Goma.
After the Goma line, Director Arai, whose face was bright red, said, "This is my 20th year, but no matter how many times I do it, it will be painful and my heart will be tightened. For the sake of the carp and the players, I want to do my best with my mind and body at full speed."