Hand-drawn goblins popular at Shinto shrine in eastern Japan

Atsushi Ikeguchi, a junior Shinto priest at the Furumine Shrine in Kanuma, Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, draws a long-nosed goblin, the shrine's symbol, on a notebook brought by a visitor with a vermilion ink brush on April 20, 2015. The shrine is popular among visitors obsessed with a booming collection of shrine and temple seals. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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