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Here's part of the Setsubun event that happened last Monday at a local shrine (Yaizu Jinja). 

Back in the day there were so~ many people. When they threw out the packages of lucky roasted beans, you would open them to find some had numbers in them. Afterward, if you took those numbers up to the shrine you could exchange them for prizes. Some gifts were little things like candy or boxes of tissues. But for a very lucky few you could get big blocks of fresh fish. Once I won a chunk of marinated katsuo, but somehow manage to lose the ticket before I reclaimed it. 

Anyway, I remember one year when Julyan was small it was so violent that I had to give up trying to catch bean packets and take him away from the throng of very grabby old men and women. I heard the year after they had to make two different areas. One for adults and one for children. Also, this year -- the first time I've been back in over ten years -- it looks like there are no more prizes. Just 'lucky roasted beans'. Still, those obaasans and ojiisans are grabby and scary. I managed to get my hands on one packet only to have it ripped away by an old woman. Later she came to me and gave it to me. That was sweet. A teenage boy saw Richard and I were beanless and thrust whole handfuls at us, Here you go!

Another thing they do is shoot a wooden oni-ogre. That's what this video is. Members of the kyudo team looking very cool indeed. That first shot!