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  • A horse and rider are paraded before the 100,000 strong crowd at the Tado Horse Festival, Japan.
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  • Young men drinking prior to the start of the main event at the Tado Horse Festival.
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  • A horse and rider are paraded before the 100,000 strong crowd at the Tado Horse Festival, Japan.
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  • A horse and rider are paraded before the 100,000 strong crowd at the Tado Horse Festival, Japan.
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  • The annual Ishidori (Stone Brining Festival) is a religious festival where each town, represented by a portable shrine, brings a white stone, which represents a rice ball.
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  • The annual Ishidori (Stone Brining Festival) is a religious festival where each town, represented by a portable shrine, brings a white stone, which represents a rice ball.
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  • The annual Ishidori (Stone Brining Festival) is a religious festival where each town, represented by a portable shrine, brings a white stone, which represents a rice ball.
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  • The annual Ishidori (Stone Brining Festival) is a religious festival where each town, represented by a portable shrine, brings a white stone, which represents a rice ball.
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  • The annual Ishidori (Stone Brining Festival) is a religious festival where each town, represented by a portable shrine, brings a white stone, which represents a rice ball.
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  • The annual Ishidori (Stone Brining Festival) is a religious festival where each town, represented by a portable shrine, brings a white stone, which represents a rice ball.
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  • The annual Ishidori (Stone Brining Festival) is a religious festival where each town, represented by a portable shrine, brings a white stone, which represents a rice ball.
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  • The annual Ishidori (Stone Brining Festival) is a religious festival where each town, represented by a portable shrine, brings a white stone, which represents a rice ball.
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  • The annual Ishidori (Stone Brining Festival) is a religious festival where each town, represented by a portable shrine, brings a white stone, which represents a rice ball.
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  • The annual Ishidori (Stone Brining Festival) is a religious festival where each town, represented by a portable shrine, brings a white stone, which represents a rice ball.
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  • Horse owners (foreground), support crew leaders, riders, and Shinto priests gather for a moment of religious offerings at the annual Tado Horse Festival.
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  • The young riders of the Tado Horse Festival are carried by their team leaders, as the riders' feet cannot touch the earch during the religious occasion.
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  • A large phallus represents fertility and hope for a good crop harvest in this coming season.
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  • A large phallus represents fertility and hope for a good crop harvest in this coming season.
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  • A large phallus represents fertility and hope for a good crop harvest in this coming season.
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  • A large phallus represents fertility and hope for a good crop harvest in this coming season.
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  • A large phallus represents fertility and hope for a good crop harvest in this coming season.
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  • A man carrying a bamboo branch with many white and red-polka dot ribbons tied to it in the Tagata Fertility Festival.
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  • A woman carrying a carved wood phallic symbol in the Tagata Fertility Festival.
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  • A demon (man in the red mask) in the procession of the Tagata Fertility Festival arriving at the shrine.
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  • A demon (man in the red mask) in the procession of the Tagata Fertility Festival arriving at the shrine.
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  • Participants carrying a portable shrine carrying a model of a deity arriving at Tagata Shrine in the Tagata Fertility Festival.
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  • NAGOYA, 4Feb2012 - Participants and spectators brave the cold for the Naked Man Festival. Film images may include dust spots, grain, and other charisma.
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  • NAGOYA, 4Feb2012 - Participants and spectators brave the cold for the Naked Man Festival. Film images may include dust spots, grain, and other charisma.
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  • People posing for photos by the phallus shortly before the Tagata Fertility Festival began.
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  • NAGOYA, 4Feb2012 - Participants and spectators brave the cold for the Naked Man Festival. Film images may include dust spots, grain, and other charisma.
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  • NAGOYA, 4Feb2012 - Participants and spectators brave the cold for the Naked Man Festival. Film images may include dust spots, grain, and other charisma.
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  • NAGOYA, 4Feb2012 - Participants and spectators brave the cold for the Naked Man Festival. Film images may include dust spots, grain, and other charisma.
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  • NAGOYA, 4Feb2012 - Participants and spectators brave the cold for the Naked Man Festival. Film images may include dust spots, grain, and other charisma.
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  • NAGOYA, 4Feb2012 - Participants and spectators brave the cold for the Naked Man Festival. Film images may include dust spots, grain, and other charisma.
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  • NAGOYA, 4Feb2012 - Participants and spectators brave the cold for the Naked Man Festival. Film images may include dust spots, grain, and other charisma.
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  • NAGOYA, 4Feb2012 - Participants and spectators brave the cold for the Naked Man Festival. Film images may include dust spots, grain, and other charisma.
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  • NAGOYA, 4Feb2012 - Participants and spectators brave the cold for the Naked Man Festival. Film images may include dust spots, grain, and other charisma.
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  • Participants carrying a portable shrine carrying a model of a deity arriving at Tagata Shrine in the Tagata Fertility Festival.
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  • The Cypress Pine phallus that is paraded in the Tagata Fertility Festival.
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  • NAGOYA, 4Feb2012 - Participants and spectators brave the cold for the Naked Man Festival. Film images may include dust spots, grain, and other charisma.
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  • NAGOYA, 4Feb2012 - Participants and spectators brave the cold for the Naked Man Festival. Film images may include dust spots, grain, and other charisma.
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  • NAGOYA, 4Feb2012 - Participants and spectators brave the cold for the Naked Man Festival. Film images may include dust spots, grain, and other charisma.
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  • NAGOYA, 4Feb2012 - Participants and spectators brave the cold for the Naked Man Festival. Film images may include dust spots, grain, and other charisma.
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  • NAGOYA, 4Feb2012 - Participants and spectators brave the cold for the Naked Man Festival. Film images may include dust spots, grain, and other charisma.
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  • NAGOYA, 4Feb2012 - Participants and spectators brave the cold for the Naked Man Festival. Film images may include dust spots, grain, and other charisma.
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  • Participants carrying a portable shrine carrying a model of a deity arriving at Tagata Shrine in the Tagata Fertility Festival.
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  • Participants in the Tagata Fertility Festival resting for a moment just after lifting and running the large heavy phallus around on the spot.
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  • Priests spin the large heavy Cypress Pine phallus around as fast as they can whilst trying not endanger themselves or the crowd in the Tagata Fertility Festival.
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  • A priest making a prayer in front of carved wood phalluses shortly before the Tagata Fertility Festival began.
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  • Crowds waiting for rice cakes to be thrown to them at the conclusion of the Tagata Fertility Festival at Tagata Shrine.
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  • A Shinto priest passing out salt to onlookers ahead of the procession in the Tagata Fertility Festival.
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  • People posing for photos by the phallus shortly before the Tagata Fertility Festival began.
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  • A young woman posing with the Cypress Pine phallus on the day of the Tagata Fertility Festival.
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  • NAGOYA, 4Feb2012 - Participants and spectators brave the cold for the Naked Man Festival. Film images may include dust spots, grain, and other charisma.
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  • The Cypress Pine phallus that is paraded in the Tagata Fertility Festival.
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  • A Shinto priest passing out salt to onlookers ahead of the procession in the Tagata Fertility Festival.
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  • A Shinto priest passing out salt to onlookers ahead of the procession in the Tagata Fertility Festival.
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  • Stone statues of Bhudda in Fukui City, Japan.
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  • An elderly man resting with his town's portable shrine near the end of the Ishidori Festival, the loudest festival in Japan (photo taken at 12.44am).
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  • Foxes at Fushimi Inari are the guardians of shrines and the messagers from the gods.
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  • A young Japanese lady touching a good-luck ball in the young people's shopping district of Osu, Nagoya city.
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  • People enjoying themselves in the annual summer Stone-bringing Festival (Ishidori) in Kuwana City, Japan.
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  • Stone statues of Bhudda in Fukui City, Japan.
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  • A rider throws confetti after attempting a ride at the Tado Horse Festival.
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  • Announcer (usually Miss Kuwana City) and supervisor just before the start of the annual Shinto Tado Horse Festival.
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  • People rub lucky cloths on a pole before the beginning of the Naked Man Festival (Hadaka Matsuri) in Kounomiya, Nagoya.
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  • Police prepare for crowd control duties before the beginning of the Naked Man Festival (Hadaka Matsuri) in Kounomiya, Nagoya.
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  • The Naked Man Festival (hadaka matsuri) is an annual event that began in the year 767ad, in the Nara Period. The event is held to removed bad luck and bestow good luck on the people. In the past, this event has attracted 180,000 spectators and 12,000 (naked) male participants.
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  • A horse gets over an obstacle, which heralds a good rice harvest at the annual Shinto Tado Horse Festival.
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  • A horse gets a run-up before climbing the hill at the annual Shinto Tado Horse Festival.
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  • The Naked Man Festival (hadaka matsuri) is an annual event that began in the year 767ad, in the Nara Period. The event is held to removed bad luck and bestow good luck on the people. In the past, this event has attracted 180,000 spectators and 12,000 (naked) male participants.
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  • The Naked Man Festival (hadaka matsuri) is an annual event that began in the year 767ad, in the Nara Period. The event is held to removed bad luck and bestow good luck on the people. In the past, this event has attracted 180,000 spectators and 12,000 (naked) male participants.
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  • The Naked Man Festival (hadaka matsuri) is an annual event that began in the year 767ad, in the Nara Period. The event is held to removed bad luck and bestow good luck on the people. In the past, this event has attracted 180,000 spectators and 12,000 (naked) male participants.
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  • Two girls looking at name-based lucky charms for boys.
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  • A team member signals to the other members their readiness at the Tado Horse Festival.
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  • Team members rest for a moment at the Tado Horse Festival.
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  • A boy in an exclusive booth watching the Tado Horse Festival.
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  • Breaking the mound for the horses to get over at the Tado Horse Festival.
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  • A horse that got over the mound at the annual Shinto Tado Horse Festival.
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  • A horse that got over the mound at the annual Shinto Tado Horse Festival.
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  • A security guard tells people not to linger in front of the crowded shrine before the beginning of the Naked Man Festival (Hadaka Matsuri) in Kounomiya, Nagoya.
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  • The enterance to Kounomiya Shrine before the beginning of the Naked Man Festival (Hadaka Matsuri) in Kounomiya, Nagoya.
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  • The Naked Man Festival (hadaka matsuri) is an annual event that began in the year 767ad, in the Nara Period. The event is held to removed bad luck and bestow good luck on the people. In the past, this event has attracted 180,000 spectators and 12,000 (naked) male participants.
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  • The Naked Man Festival (hadaka matsuri) is an annual event that began in the year 767ad, in the Nara Period. The event is held to removed bad luck and bestow good luck on the people. In the past, this event has attracted 180,000 spectators and 12,000 (naked) male participants.
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  • The Naked Man Festival (hadaka matsuri) is an annual event that began in the year 767ad, in the Nara Period. The event is held to removed bad luck and bestow good luck on the people. In the past, this event has attracted 180,000 spectators and 12,000 (naked) male participants.
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  • The Naked Man Festival (hadaka matsuri) is an annual event that began in the year 767ad, in the Nara Period. The event is held to removed bad luck and bestow good luck on the people. In the past, this event has attracted 180,000 spectators and 12,000 (naked) male participants.
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  • A horse gets a run-up before climbing the hill at the annual Shinto Tado Horse Festival.
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  • A horse that got over the mound at the annual Shinto Tado Horse Festival.
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  • People praying before the beginning of the Naked Man Festival (Hadaka Matsuri) in Kounomiya, Nagoya.
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  • A shrine worker sells lucky cloths before the beginning of the Naked Man Festival (Hadaka Matsuri) in Kounomiya, Nagoya.
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  • The Naked Man Festival (hadaka matsuri) is an annual event that began in the year 767ad, in the Nara Period. The event is held to removed bad luck and bestow good luck on the people. In the past, this event has attracted 180,000 spectators and 12,000 (naked) male participants.
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  • The Naked Man Festival (hadaka matsuri) is an annual event that began in the year 767ad, in the Nara Period. The event is held to removed bad luck and bestow good luck on the people. In the past, this event has attracted 180,000 spectators and 12,000 (naked) male participants.
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  • The Naked Man Festival (hadaka matsuri) is an annual event that began in the year 767ad, in the Nara Period. The event is held to removed bad luck and bestow good luck on the people. In the past, this event has attracted 180,000 spectators and 12,000 (naked) male participants.
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  • The Naked Man Festival (hadaka matsuri) is an annual event that began in the year 767ad, in the Nara Period. The event is held to removed bad luck and bestow good luck on the people. In the past, this event has attracted 180,000 spectators and 12,000 (naked) male participants.
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  • The Naked Man Festival (hadaka matsuri) is an annual event that began in the year 767ad, in the Nara Period. The event is held to removed bad luck and bestow good luck on the people. In the past, this event has attracted 180,000 spectators and 12,000 (naked) male participants.
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  • The Naked Man Festival (hadaka matsuri) is an annual event that began in the year 767ad, in the Nara Period. The event is held to removed bad luck and bestow good luck on the people. In the past, this event has attracted 180,000 spectators and 12,000 (naked) male participants.
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  • The Naked Man Festival (hadaka matsuri) is an annual event that began in the year 767ad, in the Nara Period. The event is held to removed bad luck and bestow good luck on the people. In the past, this event has attracted 180,000 spectators and 12,000 (naked) male participants.
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  • The Naked Man Festival (hadaka matsuri) is an annual event that began in the year 767ad, in the Nara Period. The event is held to removed bad luck and bestow good luck on the people. In the past, this event has attracted 180,000 spectators and 12,000 (naked) male participants.
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  • The annual Shinto Tado Horse Festival.
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  • The Naked Man Festival (hadaka matsuri) is an annual event that began in the year 767ad, in the Nara Period. The event is held to removed bad luck and bestow good luck on the people. In the past, this event has attracted 180,000 spectators and 12,000 (naked) male participants.
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