<figure id="attachment_456728" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-456728" style="width: 2912px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="fc19d11a"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/02/1ca8d0d7f808e63e6dfb00123238d2f7.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-456728" class="wp-caption-text">Minami Hamabe sprinkles beans in a spectacular manner at a Setsubun event held at Naritasan Fudoson (Neyagawa City, Osaka Prefecture) on February 3, 2012.</figcaption></figure>
<h2><span class="strongInContent"> About 20,000 worshippers attended the event.</span></h2>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The crowd of about 20,000 people was chanting, &#8220;Fuku wa uchi wa uchi!　Fuku wa uchi wa uchi!</span></p>
<p> February 3 is Setsubun. On this day, Setsubun festivals were held all over Japan, and the NHK historical drama &#8220;Toyotomi Brothers! and NHK&#8217;s TV drama series &#8220;Bakebake,&#8221; the main cast members were throwing beans at various locations in the Kansai region.</p>
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<p> At Naritasan Fudo Temple (Naritasan Osaka Betsuin Meioin Temple, Neyagawa City, Osaka Prefecture), which is known for &#8220;traffic safety prayers,&#8221; a special stage was set up at 1:00 p.m. with the cast of &#8220;Toyotomi Brothers! Minami Hamabe, 25, who plays Nene in &#8220;Toyotomi Brothers!&#8221; appeared in a pink haori hakama with Sousuke Ikematsu, 35, who plays Hideyoshi Toyotomi.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> It is said that even demons are converted at Naritasan Fudo, so there is no such thing as &#8220;Oni wa soto&#8221; in the call to arms. Hamabe and Ikematsu were said to be holding in their hands a large amount of beans stuffed into the largest &#8220;Senmasu Daifuku Masu&#8221; (150cm square, 80cm high, weighing 200kg) in Japan, and they were throwing them cheerfully with a shout of &#8220;Fuku wa uchi! The beans were scattered cheerfully with the shouts of &#8220;Fuku wa uchi!</span><span class="strongInContent"> Hamabe-san&#8217;s beans were scattered with great vigor. Many visitors rushed to the shrine to receive the beans that Ms. Hamabe had scattered,&#8221; said one of the visitors.</span></p>
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<p> At 11:00 a.m., Akari Takaishi (23), the heroine of &#8220;Bakebake,&#8221; Tommy Bastow (34), who played her husband, and Takashi Okabe (53), who played her father, appeared at the same location. At this point, there were approximately 20,000 worshippers. The two actors, who play a married couple in the drama, were cheered on when they showed their chemistry by shouting together and vigorously scattering beans.</p>
<p> Bastow updated her Instagram on the same day. He uploaded a video of himself scattering beans,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Thank you all for coming out today!</span></p>
<p> Thank you all for coming! Also, at the &#8220;Fukumamemaki Event in Nagahama Castle&#8221; held at Toyo Park in Nagahama City, Shiga Prefecture, Bastow, who plays the younger sister of the brothers in &#8220;Toyotomi Brothers! and Nagi Inoue (20), who is scheduled to appear as Chacha, appeared at the event. They were full of energy as they sprinkled the beans.</p>
<p> It seems that the spectators who received the beans that the girls had scattered were already &#8220;blessed&#8221;.</p>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" Entertainers vigorously scattering beans"></div>
<figure id="attachment_456730" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-456730" style="width: 3966px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="42473a04"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/02/732929d13c3cf45dd0a626322a36cd2f.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-456730" class="wp-caption-text">NHK Taiga Drama &#8220;Toyotomi Brothers! Sousuke Ikematsu as Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Minami Hamabe as Nene in</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_456731" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-456731" style="width: 4086px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="37cda2dc"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/02/98f1082b2aef30a99e139f4f1eb2c2e3.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-456731" class="wp-caption-text"> Ikematsu and Hamabe, who play a married couple in the drama, show that they work well together.</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_456732" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-456732" style="width: 3665px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="780279df"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/02/0a86326ca08a5b93a0863cea30f2b657.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-456732" class="wp-caption-text"> Akari Takaishi and Tommy Bastow as a married couple in the NHK television series &#8220;Bakebake.</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_456733" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-456733" style="width: 1754px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="31788202"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/02/e817883bceaf4e2411ff5e8a954cf9e9.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-456733" class="wp-caption-text"> Akari Takaishi vigorously throws beans.</figcaption></figure>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" Anna Kurasawa and Kazu Inoue"></div>
<figure id="attachment_456735" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-456735" style="width: 4508px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="888f6f04"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/02/cc811f519f4e3dc516c1d996734487b3.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-456735" class="wp-caption-text">From left: Akari Takaishi, Tommy Bastow, Takashi Okabe</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_456757" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-456757" style="width: 1452px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="ba2b6bb1"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/02/95fb9c7e3dea2411a558bab0cff8e3cb.png" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-456757" class="wp-caption-text"> The collaboration between &#8220;Bakebake&#8221; and &#8220;Toyotomi Brothers! (from Tommy Bastow&#8217;s Instagram @tommybastow)</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_456736" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-456736" style="width: 2609px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="71fd64bf"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/02/a862c1f924c1a260215dc6deb13b4a78.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-456736" class="wp-caption-text"> Asahi, who plays the younger sister of the brothers in NHK&#8217;s historical drama &#8220;Toyotomi Brothers! Anna Kurasawa plays Asahi, the younger sister of the brothers in the NHK historical drama &#8220;Toyotomi Brothers!</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_456737" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-456737" style="width: 2537px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="dbe0dbc5"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/02/6d974fd296f78d0e4e0e50e59802267e.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-456737" class="wp-caption-text"> Inoue Kazuwa, who plays Chasa in the NHK Taiga Drama &#8220;Toyotomi Brothers! Kazu Inoue plays Chasa in the NHK historical drama &#8220;Toyotomi Brothers!</figcaption></figure>


 On February 3, the day of Setsubun, Setsubun-kai was held in various regions. Especially in the Kansai region, "Bakebake" and "Toyotomi Brothers! and "Toyotomi Brothers!", and the beautiful women threw beans at the audience.

Minami Hamabe and Akari Takaishi “Fuku wa uchi wa uchi! Beautiful women at the Setsubun party held at Naritasan Fudoson

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