🧵KUKURIZARU
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🧵KUKURIZARU
When walking through the neighbourhood that tumbles down the hillside from Kiyomizu-dera to Gion, you may notice some odd-shaped talismans hung outside homes and businesses.
Kukurizaru (くくり猿) are small balls of cloth, most commonly red in colour.
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Kukurizaru represent bound monkeys, tied at the feet & hands.
Outside the home they act as protective talismans for those within, but at Yasaka Kōshin-dō (八坂庚申堂) they are also made as offerings to the blue guardian deity Shōmen Kongō (青面金剛).Yasaka Kōshin-dō, founded in 887, is centre for the Kōshin faith.
Originally a folk religion, practitioners of Kōshin-shinkō believe that for a wish to come true it is necessary to sacrifice 1 desire. Desires are thus symbolically bound up as a kukurizaru.