Kids in the States know how to send away unwanted rain and attract the sun.
Rain, Rain, go away, come again some other day
Ah, the power of verse.
In Japan it is a bit different, but the idea is similar. When it is nasty weather and children want tomorrow to be sunny, they make a Teru teru bozu1 doll.
The teru-teru bozu doll isn
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