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Honen Sai Matsuri (Fertility Festival) of Tagata Shrine in Komaki-City, a Shocking but Traditional Fertility Festival
The festival is held every March 15, and in it a phallus, newly carved every year from Japanese cypress and more than 60 cm in diameter and 2 m long, is carried on a portable shrine by parade men of a “unlucky age“ and offered to said shrine with prayers for a good harvest, the flourishing of all natural things and prosperous descendants. The sight of all this has led to the proceedings’ becoming widely known as one of the world’s strangest festivals, and on the day the temple grounds are filled with visitors from Japan and overseas.
Shinto shrines are found all over Japan and is a symbol of the people’s linkage to their community. Shrines serves as houses for divine spirits as well as places preserving memories and practices of Japanese culture. Based on the discovery in 1935 of an ancient sword and ar
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