This was last November. Ebisu is a business kami. So if you want your business to do well, you go to his festival and buy one of the these "rakes" (pictured below) so it will help you "rake" in your business. His face is pictured on the sign above. The shrine is on a buy shopping street that was even more busy that evening after all the shops had closed. The bigger the rake, the more business I guess you can rake in because the prices climbed steeply. The cheapest were about $30 for one only about 3 inches big. While ones like the one pictured below went for over $100!
Above people are bringing their old rakes to the shrine to be burned and then are off to purchase a new rake for the year. The rake will hang in their store/business. That was a crazy long line. Glad I didn't have to wait in it!
Since it was a festival, the usual festival stalls were there. Big blow up toys for the kids, real goldfish for you to catch and win, junk food such as french fries and takoyaki (fried little balls of batter with octopus inside topped with carp sauce, mayo, and seaweed flake), squid on a stick..etc.
Above: A view down the busy, crowded covered shopping street that was now lined with stalls. It was really hard to make it through there. Just way too many people!
Above: The shrine again. Just set into the shopping street. Pretty common site. Shrines are EVERYWHERE.
More varieties of rakes at a variety of high prices. I wanted to buy one, but I didn't think it was worth the cost.
Taiko drummers perform later that evening at the festival on a busy street that had been closed to traffic.
This was last November. Ebisu is a business kami. So if you want your business to do well, you go to his festival and buy one of the these "rakes" (pictured below) so it will help you "rake" in your business. His face is pictured on the sign above. The shrine is on a buy shopping street that was even more busy that evening after all the shops had closed. The bigger the rake, the more business I guess you can rake in because the prices climbed steeply. The cheapest were about $30 for one only about 3 inches big. While ones like the one pictured below went for over $100! 
Above people are bringing their old rakes to the shrine to be burned and then are off to purchase a new rake for the year. The rake will hang in their store/business. That was a crazy long line. Glad I didn't have to wait in it!
Since it was a festival, the usual festival stalls were there. Big blow up toys for the kids, real goldfish for you to catch and win, junk food such as french fries and takoyaki (fried little balls of batter with octopus inside topped with carp sauce, mayo, and seaweed flake), squid on a stick..etc.
Above: A view down the busy, crowded covered shopping street that was now lined with stalls. It was really hard to make it through there. Just way too many people!
Above: The shrine again. Just set into the shopping street. Pretty common site. Shrines are EVERYWHERE.
More varieties of rakes at a variety of high prices. I wanted to buy one, but I didn't think it was worth the cost.
Taiko drummers perform later that evening at the festival on a busy street that had been closed to traffic.
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