Dokanyama Suwa Shrine in Tokyo

Every year at the end of June, many shrines in Japan hold a purification rite called Nagoshi no Harae to allow people to atone for their sins in the first half of the year and pray for their health in the remainder of the year by walking through a chinowa wreath (made of a kind of rush called chigaya). At this shrine on Dokanyama Hill in northern Tokyo you can see a diagram to the left of the wreath that informs visitors how to walk in and out of the wreath in a figure 8 to maximize their purification.