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Hanging from Ebisu-jinja's gate is an image of Ebisu attached to a kumade (garden rake). It is customary for visitors to toss coins up, hoping they falls in the rake. Kumade (熊手) are symbols of 'raking in' good fortune, and you often see small versions as charms.
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Gods that miss the gathering are known as 'rusu-gami' (留守神 'absent gods').
Perhaps the most famous rusu-gami is Ebisu (恵比寿), one of the only gods to skip the annual event. Because he remains at home, many communities hold festivities during this time at his shrines.
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The fast growing grass is strong and hardy, qualities people wish to pass on to their own businesses. As the leaves aged and yellowed they were thought to look like old coins.
It was the shrine's 30th head that struck upon the idea of selling auspicious objects to adorn the bamboo.
Ebisu-jinja's 30th head priest was also the first to invite vendors to set up stalls, creating a carnival-like atmosphere that survives to this day.
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Ebisu (恵比寿) is the god of business prosperity, successful crops, and abundance...and is quite possibly the most popular of the '7 Gods of Fortune' (七福神).
In the Muromachi period the idea of celebrating the '7 Gods of Fortune' began in Kyōto, and it is likely that the first Shichifukujin Mairi pilgrimage (都七福神まいり) originated at Ebisu-jinja (えびす神社).
From Kyōto similar pilgrimages spread across Japan.