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Fig. 3.38 Distribution of believers in Yoshikawa district, 1995 (Kanamura offi ce)
Those who picked the number closest to the remaining paper were selected to visit
Kanamura . We note this rotation system of visitors and having a premeeting is char-
acteristic of the Yoshikawa area.
There were six communities that had a postmeeting. In the Kami-uchikawa com-
munity, they visited Kanamura in the morning, and went to a community center to
have a meal with kami on return. This was called Kanjo-ko or yamagaeshi , where the
visitors gave amulets to the members and the next visitors and were selected by lot.
In Yoshikawa, eight communities (two-thirds of the total) had a pre or postmeeting
when organizing something related to Kanamura . This implies the Kanamura asso-
ciations have their own meetings as organizations.
Figure 3.38 shows the distribution of believers in Yoshikawa area in 1995. Eight
persons visited Kanamura as believers, seven went in the autumn festival on