Hiroko Yoda
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Because I know that it's a tradition, you know, and everywhere.
It's renewing.
It's every year.
No matter which Shinto shrine, they renew.
So there has to be renew, but I don't know how, right?
Unfortunately, a friend of mine, he had a close relationship to Nachitaisha, the Shinto shrine.
And then he gave me access to the Shimenawa rope exchanging, changing Shimenawa rope ritual twice a year.
Twice a year.
Well, not even once a year.
Twice a year.
One is July, and then the second was December.
And he put me in the ritual in December.
I was there with only a few other mass media people, and then the Shinto priests, four Shinto priests, worked together.
Let me tell you how scary that was.
Just with hands.
Seriously.
Once they slip, they're going to go bye-bye.
So I asked them after they changed the seminar rope, I asked them if they feel scared.
Scared.
And one priest told me, not at all.