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Japan, Nishinomiya Shinto Shrine. New year's day, Shogatsu. Family on Hatsumode visit, (first visit of the new year), reading a fortune paper, Omikuji to their child daughter. She looks happy and smiling as they bend to explain.

Japan, Nishinomiya Shinto Shrine. New year's day, Shogatsu. Family on Hatsumode visit, (first visit of the new year), reading a fortune paper, Omikuji to their child daughter. She looks happy and smiling as they bend to explain. Stock Photo

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5472 x 3648 px | 46.3 x 30.9 cm | 18.2 x 12.2 inches | 300dpi

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1 January 2018

Location:

Nishinomiya Shrine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

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Nishinomiya, Japan. 1 January 2018. After a lull in numbers from around 3am this morning, the pace again picked up at the Nishinomiya shrine where thousands of Japanese poured in all day to conduct the traditional Hatsumode, first visit of the new year. The shrine, one of the most important Shinto shrines in Japan caters for the Nishinomiya/Osaka area and is very popular. A little girl is read her fortune by her Mother and Father, apparently pleased with what she heard. The weather stayed nice, with temperatures around 6-8c, but in the afternoon it begun to get windy. Credit-Malcolm Fairman/Alamy Live News.

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