(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
The first record of Itsukushima Shrine in Japanese history was in the 
Nihon Koki ... in 1325, and from that time on, the layout became similar to its 
current state.