(Kelly of the Clue Crew kneels at the riverbank in Kyoto, Japan, and releases a basket with two small dolls into the current.)  In Shinto, dolls called katashiro take on transgressions of a person & are set adrift in this type of spiritual cleansing rite
... into the construction, the shrine is said to be the finest example of 
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