Year of Boar in 2019

Ietaka Kuki (L), chief priest of the Kumano Hongu Taisha shrine in Wakayama Prefecture, and Hiroyoshi Kojima, stationmaster of JR Wakayama Station, pose for a photo at the station in the western Japan prefecture on Nov. 28, 2018. Kuki donated an "ema" votive tablet (L) from the shrine bearing an illustration of a boar ahead of the Year of the Boar in the Oriental zodiac. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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