Is a fertility festival celebrated every March 15 in Japan. The most famous festival celebrated in the town of Komaki, north of Nagoya. Hōnen means the harvest of rice and Matsuri means festival. Hōnen Festival celebrates the blessings received due to the abundant harvest and all the prosperity and fertility
The main attraction of this celebration include: the Shinto priest who played the music, participants in the robes of ceremony, a free sake, and a wooden penis weighing 280 kg, with a length of 2.5 meters. Every year, in even-numbered years, the wooden penis was taken from the temple to temple Shinmei-Sha Tagata Jinja, or shrine of Kumano-Sha in odd years, was also taken to Tagata Jinja
The festival starts with celebration and preparation at 10 am at Tagata Jinja, where all the food and souvenir items (almost everything related to the shape of a penis or penis) was sold to the pilgrims. Sake is given freely from large wooden barrels. Around 2 o'clock, all gathered in Shinmei-Sha (or Kumano-Sha) to start the ceremony. Shinto priest opened with a prayer and bless the participants and mikoshi (miniature shrine) and a wooden penis which will be paraded along the journey.
When the procession approached the Tagata Jinja, wooden penis and had mikoshi will be played in circles before finally laid to be blessed by prayer. Then all gathered outside and waited Tagata Jina "mochi nage", where all participants will be in "rained" with a mochi cake that is thrown by the organizers of the stage, and the festival ends at 4:30 pm.
translated from Wikipedia.net (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hounen_Matsuri)
That feel weird, in my opinion does, in Asian cultures, fertility is symbolized by Yoni, (couples phallus / male), but .. in this festival, wearing a commemorative huh? hmm what Japanese culture is very patriarchal? ato how ya?
In edo era japan. A woman who desires to serve special syawat nobles. At that time he must serve a nobleman who syphilis affected his genitals cut off from the nobility of his displeasure krn TSB diidap bangsawan.Dia disease in tanggkap who then sentenced mati.tanah as the place these sex pembuanganan strangely become very subur.oleh Japanese emperor at the moment to set a fertility festival TSB current myth is still considered sacred by jepang.jika undergo sex at the festival's activities ... so they'll avoid venereal disease. At the same time attract foreign and domestic tourists.
Fair could add foreign country. Anyway .. why not prohibit Shintoism.
