In an annual year-end event held at Horyuji Temple (法隆寺),  Buddhist monks cleaned the dust from the statues of the healing Buddha.

Horyuji Temple is located in Ikagura-cho, Nara Prefecture, and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1993.  It is also known to have some of the world's oldest existing wooden structures.

It was founded by a group of people that included Prince Shotoku, a son of the Emperor Yomei, in dedication to his father in the early 7th century.

The dusting and wiping down of the Buddha statues occurs around this time annually before the arrival of the New Year.