commentary: 平伏 (prostration)

Hiroi Michiaki: And this is “prostration.” This is Fukusuke [a bringer of good luck]. Fukusuke goes like this and is prostrating himself. And he takes this, this is a katana. You take the head, the head becomes a top, and you take the torso like this–

Mrs Hiroi: Yeah. You put all of it together.

Hiroi: It becomes two tops and you spin them.

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