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The Japan News/Yomiuri
The Japan News/Yomiuri
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The Yomiuri Shimbun

Tokyo shrine prepares for bullfinch figurine rite

Paint is applied to wooden depictions of Eurasian bullfinches at Kameido Tenjin shrine in Koto Ward, Tokyo, in early January. (Credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun)

Staff at a Tokyo shrine are busy preparing wooden figurines of Eurasian bullfinches ahead of its annual bullfinch-exchange rite on Jan. 24 and 25.

The Japanese name for the Eurasian bullfinch is "uso," a homonym for the word meaning "falsehood."

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