Q. Sakamakiのインスタグラム(qsakamaki) - 3月13日 18時38分

Naked Festival at Saidaiji-Tmeple in Okayama. One of the reasons of Japan’s countryside’s drastic depopulation is Tokyo centralization. Yet, the local people try to keep the tradition to raise the community spirit, like this Naked Festival at Saidaiji-Temple. #nakedfestival #hadakamatsuri #okayama Saidaiji-Temple’s Hadaka Matsuri, or literally Naked Festival, is one of the three most eccentric festivals of Japan, probably the most. In the night, nine thousand men wearing only loincloths, or Fundoshi in the Japanese terms, fiercely, often dangerously compete for obtaining one of the two Shingi sticks, or holy wood sticks. Hadaka Matsuri is a Shinto related festival. The festival started in 1510 of the Samurai- era of Muromachi, though the root goes back more than twelve hundred years ago — 777 in Nara era. If a person gets the Shingi stick, he would be really blesses for a year. However it is extremely difficult to catch the holy sticks thrown by the priest, because of so may participants. Even if a person gets the stick, others could easily take it from the person: they can continuously compete until the holy stick obtained man gets out the site through the gate. In addition, when the holy Shingi sticks are thrown, the all lights are virtually turned off into the darkness. The participants have to find the sticks by the smell, as those are incensed. In these situations, many could be wounded, actually even to death. Yet, still in this modern time, so many people want to participate in the festival not only for the holy sticks, but for the pride.

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