Residents visit Daijingu Temple of Hawaii to receive New Year’s Day blessings
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A steady stream of people visited Daijingu Temple of Hawaii in Nuuanu for New Year's Day blessings and to pick up omamori on Friday. The Shinto temple is taking online orders for the good luck amulets called omamori but items can be purchased on site. Visitors must wear masks and socially distance due to COVID-19 safety measures.
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Kailani Kudo presided over a blessing at Daijingu Temple of Hawaii in Nuuanu on New Year’s Day.
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Ichinoshin Kubo, 9, tied a paper fortune, called omikuji, upon a rack with his siblings on New Year’s Day at the Daijingu Temple of Hawaii.
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Waiting in line at the temple to receive blessing were members of the Lee family. from left are Yuko, Alice, Maria and Victor.
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Kailani Kudo blessed the Sakada family at Daijingu Temple of Hawaii in Nuuanu on New Year’s Day.
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Kailani Kudo presided over a blessing at Daijingu Temple of Hawaii in Nuuanu on New Year’s Day.
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A detail of the different omamori being sold at Daijingu Temple of Hawaii.
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Kailani Kudo presided over a blessing at Daijingu Temple of Hawaii in Nuuanu on New Year’s Day.
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Strips of paper bearing fortunes, called omikuji, are tied upon string and hooks by visitors on New Year’s Day at the Daijingu Temple of Hawaii.
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Old omamori from 2020 were discarded by visitors into a bin on New Year’s Day at the Daijingu Temple of Hawaii on Friday.
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