Japanese pray for end to pandemic in annual ice bath ritual

Mon, Jan 11, 2021 - 5:50 AM

Only a dozen people took part in the annual event at Teppou-zu Inari Shrine, scaled down this year due to the health crisis, compared to over a hundred in early 2020. Spectators were not allowed at the event.

PHOTO: REUTERS

Tokyo

MEN wearing traditional loin clothes and women dressed in white robes clapped and chanted before going into an ice water bath during a Shinto ritual at a Tokyo shrine on Sunday to purify the soul and pray for the end of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Only a dozen people took part in...

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