New Year’s revelers tried to grab a fistful of fortune for 2025 at a western Japan temple’s annual “fukutabae” event on Jan. 3, in which 3,000 “lucky notes” are dropped down to an eager crowd.
Visitors heard a sutra chanted by the temple’s chief priest Anaho Gyonin and others before the good-luck charms drifted down from a 5-meter-high turret in front of Anao-ji temple’s main hall in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture.
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