A participant works on her calligraphy during the 61st Kakizome calligraphy contest at Nippon Budokan on January 05, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. School children and adults from around Japan participated in this Kakizome contest, where they created their first calligraphy of the new year. The ceremony, which was traditionally performed on the second day of January each year, sees people paint Kanji characters with a writing brush for the first time each year. (Photo by Takashi Aoyama/Getty Images)
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