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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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  • A horse and rider are paraded before the 100,000 strong crowd at the Tado Horse Festival, Japan.
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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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  • Sake and beer play a central part of the annual Tado Horse Festival, where support crews, rider, and even horse are made drunk for the event.
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  • Horses at the Tado Horse Festival need to race up a steep slope and get over this mound, and these men support the horse and rider giving all assistance possible to see that the horse can get over. If the horse can get over, then this would be a good omen for the rice harvest later in the year.
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  • In this festival, horses are ridden up a very steep slope. If they make it over, then it is said to be a good omen for the rice harvest later in the year. Conversely, if the horses fail, then it is said that the crops may fail.
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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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  • Tado Horse Festival: Horses are raced up a steep slope and over this obstacle. If the horses can make it over, then this heralds a good rice harvest later in the year.
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  • Young men drinking prior to the start of the main event at the Tado Horse Festival.
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  • In this festival, horses are ridden up a very steep slope. If they make it over, then it is said to be a good omen for the rice harvest later in the year. Conversely, if the horses fail, then it is said that the crops may fail.
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  • The mound-obstacle  at the end of the day at the annual Tado Horse Festival.
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  • A Shinto priestess makes offerings to individual people who offer some coins.
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  • A horse that had failed to get over a mound-obstacle during the annual Tado Horse Festival is taken up to a Temple.
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  • A Shinto priestess makes offerings to individual people who offer some coins.
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  • Each year, several people get injured at the annual Tado Horse Festival.
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  • A horse that had failed to get over a mound-obstacle during the annual Tado Horse Festival is taken up to a Temple.
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  • Support teams head up to the shrine at Tado Temple during the annual Tado Horse Festival.
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  • The official announcer of the Tado Horse Festival is looking to see if the next team are ready to start.
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  • In this festival, horses are ridden up a very steep slope. It is said that if they make it over, then it is a good omen for the rice harvest later in the year. Conversely, if the horses fail, then it is said that the crops may fail.
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  • Each year, several people get injured at the annual Tado Horse Festival.
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  • A rider throws confetti after attempting a ride at the Tado Horse Festival.
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