Today is the week of Setsubun, the Bean Throwing Festival. A festival of luck and for driving away the evil Oni. We'll talk about it's origins, the rituals and folklore behind it and Heather will tell us a little of her first hand experience at one of these festivals.

And for the poem we head back to the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu and hear a poem by the Emperor Koko.

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Intro and Outro music by The Kyoto Connection available on the freemusicarchive.

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Written by Thomas and Heather.