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Document 72 Hours - Season 11 Episode 13 Saying Farewell to Once-Loved Dolls at Hofu Tenmangu Shrine

2025-07-15 25 minutes.
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Season - Episode

5 Season 5 Jan 17, 2017
4 Season 4 Jan 12, 2016
2 Season 2 Apr 15, 2014
1 Season 1 Aug 22, 2013

Overview

Each year, Hofu Tenmangu shrine in Yamaguchi Prefecture holds a "doll appreciation festival" at which people can give their now-unwanted dolls a proper farewell. Among the shrine's visitors were a man bringing dolls he displayed to bring his daughter luck when she was young; a grandfather who displayed dolls for his grandchildren for 30 years; and a woman who made a doll as she prepared to marry decades ago. What do people feel as they say a final thank you and goodbye to their dolls? For three days, we asked them.

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