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Festival Japan
Through a couchsurfing exchange with the locals, I was able to attend a 500 year-old festival in
Okayama Japan known as the Saidai-ji Eyo Hadaka Matsuri: the Naked Men Festival.
In this celebration, a priest gathers among a crowd of almost nine thousand men to hurl two
ceremonial sticks in the air. It is said that the men who catch them are blessed with a year of
happiness, which is motivation enough for them to participate almost completely naked during the
cold months of the year where temperatures reach 0 degrees.
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