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...those are collections of omikuji. omikuji are fortune telling paper slips found at many shrines and temples. you put 100yen (about $1) into a little machine that gives you a random omikuji, which contains a prediction ranging from daikichi ('great good luck') to daikyo ('great bad luck'). by knotting the omikuji around either a tree branch or one of these rope structures, a good fortune is said to come true and bad ones are said to be averted. you can see many more omikuji knotted up in the background.