Damoogee, a symbol of good luck and wish-granting
Damoogee is an auspicious object used for praying and making wishes, and is usually purchased at the “Dharma Market” at the beginning of the year at a temple, kept at home for a year, and then brought to the temple or shrine at the beginning of the following year to be cremated and returned to the gods, and is considered a “letter to the gods. The abbot of Dharma Temple Hirose said that Dharma faced the wall for nine years and finally succeeded in attaining enlightenment through seven disasters and was respected for his indomitable spirit.

In Japan, every household buys a Damoogee as a good luck charm to pray for business prosperity, good harvest, and the elimination of disasters, and names the Damoogee “だるま” after the ancestor of Dama, which later became synonymous with tumbler.