First step, toss your old rake in this big pile

始めに、去年の熊手をここに投げています。そこ大きい熊手は高かったそうです。 Last year’s rake must have cost hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. That’s the price of good luck.

More eating at lucky rake festival

 

酉の市の祭りに、食べ物と飲み物の不足がありません。

No shortage of food or drink at Hanazono shrine’s Tori no Ichi festival.

Lucky rakes help your business in the new year

酉の市の熊手について、「ザクザク」という言葉を今年に勉強なりましたが。

This year I learned that the sound the rakes make in collecting your prosperity is “zaku zaku” (ザクザク). You can still get your lucky rake at Hanazono shrine in Shinjuku on Friday November 21 and Saturday November 22 from 10 pm until dawn.