{"id":118282,"date":"2021-01-10T15:24:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T23:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/japanese-pray-for-end-to-pandemic-in-annual-ice-bath-ritual-at-tokyo-shrine"},"modified":"2021-01-10T15:24:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T23:24:04","slug":"japanese-pray-for-end-to-pandemic-in-annual-ice-bath-ritual-at-tokyo-shrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/japanese-pray-for-end-to-pandemic-in-annual-ice-bath-ritual-at-tokyo-shrine","title":{"rendered":"Japanese pray for end to pandemic in annual ice bath ritual at Tokyo shrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japanese-pray-for-end-to-pandemic-in-annual-ice-bath-ritual-at-tokyo-shrine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOKYO (Reuters) \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>After doing warming-up exercises and chanting under a clear sky with outside temperatures at 5.1 degree Celsius (41.18 Fahrenheit), the nine male and three female participants went into a bath filled with cold water and large ice blocks. \u201cI prayed that the coronavirus comes to an end as soon as possible,\u201d said 65-year-old participant Shinji Ooi, who heads the Shrine\u2019s \u2018Yayoikai\u2019 parishioner group, after the ritual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (Reuters) \u2014 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 the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}