Over the last years, I watched this tradition and I always enjoyed it: in 2010, the Ox and the Tiger and in 2011 the Tiger and the Rabbit were quite fun to watch, while the last year we witnessed little seahorses personifying the mighty Dragon.
Since the year to come will be the "Year of the Snake", a massive 3-meters python from the Tennōji Zoo was carried on shoulders to meet the cute seahorses. And if you're wondering what's with the statue on which the snake is coiled, that's Billiken, the modern God enshrined right here, in the Tsutenkaku Tower:
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