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It is made of lacquered, painted and gilded wood and shows clear signs of use. Labels inside the mask refer to cyclical dates on which the mask was used for the New Year processions.\r\n\r\nDuring Gyodo ceremonies priests wearing masks enact the part of Amida Buddha (Sanskrit: Amitabha) and his disciples, welcoming the soul of dying believers into Paradise. The priests also carry a statue or Buddhist relics in a carriage or palanquin in a procession. Bodhisattva masks are particularly associated with the Raigo form of the Gyodo ceremony, in which the dead are welcomed into Paradise by the Amida Buddha. 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Shogatsu ( New Year)\r\n2.  Tsuitachi Kinoto (First day, Kinoto Year)\r\n3.  Futsuka Hinoe (Second day, Hinoe Year)\r\n4.  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