Teru teru bōzu

'shine, shine monk') is a small traditional handmade doll hung outside doors and windows in Japan in hope of sunny weather.

[2][3] Traditionally, if the weather does turn out well, a libation of holy sake is poured over them, and they are washed away in the river.

[7] As the story unfolds, a girl was sacrificed to save the city during a heavy rainfall by ascending symbolically to the heavens and sweeping rain clouds from the sky.

Since then, the people have commemorated her by making paper cutouts of her and hanging them outdoors in the hopes of good weather.

It is written, "If the weather becomes fine, I write my pupils on the paper, offer sake to the gods, and pour it into the river.