Clock festival at shrine in western Japan

A woman wearing a traditional Japanese court dress offers a clock to a priest during an annual clock festival at Omi Jingu shrine in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, on June 10, 2025. Omi Jingu enshrines Emperor Tenji, who is said to have established a system to measure time in seventh-century Japan by setting up a water clock.

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