Bankers collect offerings at Kyoto shrine

Bankers collect offerings at Kyoto shrine

Bankers count offerings Jan. 4 at Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto, western Japan, made by visitors during the New Year holidays. Some 2.8 million people, 90,000 more over a year before, visited the shrine Jan. 1-3. The shrine deity is regarded as a guardian of business prosperity.

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