Shinto: Ceremony pouring sake into a carp (incarnation of God)

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A local religious ceremony in Japan meant to cleanse people from bad luck receives backlash from social media users after a video showing carps being force-fed alcohol goes viral. Every year on January 7th in central Japan, the locals of this community hold a ritual where they force feed carps sake, Japanese rice wine, before releasing it in the river.

This annual ceremony is believed to have started 200 years ago as a religious purification rite in the traditional animist Shinto religion, and … Let the pictures do the talking

[Video source No Comment TV YouTube channel]

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