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Annual daruma market

MAEBASHI, Japan - Customers look at daruma dolls, said to bring good luck, during the annual New Year's daruma doll market event at Shorinzan Darumaji temple in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, on Jan. 6, 2011. The origin of the market dates back around 200 years to when a priest taught starving farmers how to craft dolls, modeled after Zen founder Bodhidharma, to sell them.

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Supplications to the divine considered personal info in Net era

Buddhist priest Isshin Hirose stands in front of wooden votive plaques, called "ema," some of them having white stickers to hide information, at Shorinzan Darumaji temple in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Feb. 11, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Annual daruma market

MAEBASHI, Japan - Customers look at daruma dolls, said to bring good luck, during the annual New Year's daruma doll market event at Shorinzan Darumaji temple in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, on Jan. 6, 2011. The origin of the market dates back around 200 years to when a priest taught starving farmers how to craft dolls, modeled after Zen founder Bodhidharma, to sell them. (Kyodo)