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Workers assemble decorative fuku-kumade “lucky rakes” at the workshop of a cooperative in Nara City. To meet demand for auspicious charms for New Year shrine visits and Toka Ebisu festivals to be held around Jan. 10, they carefully attached good-luck ornaments to the rakes by hand: masks of Ebisu (o...