(From last month, Feb 3, the beginning of spring…)
Above: Setsubun maki-zushi container with oni face.
You must eat uncut maki-zushi on Setsubun, while facing a certain direction, in silence — a clever custom started by convenience stores.
Handful of toasted soybeans, to throw out of the house while chanting "Oni wa soto! Fuku wa uchi!" (Demons out! Good luck in!)
Bonfire at Yoshida-jinja, in which the last year's temple charms are burned.
Among the Setsubun ashes, a slightly burned daruma doll.