Stareastasia Weird News » Weird Festivals http://weird.stareastasia.com Weird news and odd stuff from from China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:17:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Japanese naked men festival http://weird.stareastasia.com/2011/02/japanese-naked-men-festival/ http://weird.stareastasia.com/2011/02/japanese-naked-men-festival/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:49:26 +0000 Webmaster http://weird.stareastasia.com/?p=539 The annual Saidai-ji Eyo hadaka matsuri (nudity festival), a ritual said to have originated in the Muromachi Period (1338-1573), was held Saturday night at the Saidai-ji Kannon-in temple in Okayama’s Higashi Ward.

Thousands of men dressed in skimpy traditional undergarment packed into the temple grounds and grappled for a pair of shingi (sacred pieces of wood), each measuring about 20 centimetres long, and tossed from the window of the temple’s main altar.

According to local belief, those who manage to get their hands on the wooden amulet and race out of the temple’s precincts will be blessed with good fortune for the rest of the year.

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Korean Kiss Day

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