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Rising to the occasion

On the way back from Chiba, my girlfriend and I stopped off at the Kanamara Festival in Kawasaki. Kanamara means "big iron penis" in Japanese slang, and the festival celebrates fertility.

Several hundred people turned out to suck on penis-shaped lolipops, drink sake from penis-shaped flasks, watch old Japanese women carve giant daikon radishes into penis shapes, and have their pictures taken astride a giant wooden penis:

The whole thing felt a bit like a tourist attraction, with as many foreigners as Japanese in attendance. But there was also a genuine Shinto ceremony, with various blessings and invocations solemnly uttered by a priest in ceremonial kimono and black cap. Finally, the fesitvities reached their... um, climax, as a massive pink penis was carried aloft through the streets of the town:

Some religions may frown on displays of sexuality, but Shinto never got the message.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

And who says the Japanese people are repressed??? 

Posted by Chad

Anonymous said...

Wow!!! Great post. 

Posted by Paul

Anonymous said...

I showed this to a friend of mine and explained that it had something to do with a penis spirit. (This is a Shinto thing, right?)

Upon learning that Japan recognized such a thing as a penis spirit, my friend was forced to reach the same conclusion reached on last week's episode of South Park : "Japanese people have no souls." 

Posted by Joe

Anonymous said...

we have a day like that in america it is called V day (you know what the V is for, though we do get the pictures like the Japs do) 

Posted by cubicle

Anonymous said...

Now Thats hard to beat! 

Posted by Billy Budd

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