Kanamara Festival

Kanamara Festival. kanamara matsuri kanamara matsuri stock pictures royaltyfree photos & images Visitor ride on a wooden phallic figure during the Kanamara Festival or the Utamaro Festival near Wakamiya Hachimangu Shrine on April 4 2010 in.

The Kanamara Matsuri (かなまら祭り) also known as “ Festival of the Steel Phallus ” is a traditional Shinto festival In recent days it has become a very popular festival in Japan – especially among foreign tourists It is very crowded and locals told me that every year more and more people come.

Kanamara Matsuri Wikipedia

The Kanamara Festival is all about penises (Yes penises genitals no typos involved!) This traditional festival is held in the city of Kawasaki every spring just outside of Tokyo and the festivities are right out there in the open.

Kanamara Matsuri (Penis Festival) Kanagawa …

Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus) The festival traces its origins to the Edo Period when Kawasaki’s ladies of the night prayed for success in their business and protection from syphilis At cherry blossom time they would gather baskets of bamboo shoots and other spring delicacies carry the shrine’s phallic image in procession through the streets and then sit down.

Kanamara Matsuri, en Edoperiod tradition turned modernday

The Kanamara Matsuri Festival also known as the Festival of the Steel Phallus is celebrated annually on the first Sunday in April at Kanayama Shrine in Kawasaki just south of Tokyo Made of old stone and boasting a small but pretty network of traditional orange torii gates the humble penis venerating shrine built around 698 AD has stood the test of time From the.