The Japanese have a habit bare in winter.
Newstovote - Unique is synonymous with Japan. Many eccentric things you can find in this country, ranging from food, appearance , until the habit is beyond reason. One of them is naked in the winter habits are better known as Hadaka Matsuri or Naked Festival .
Quoted from page jnto.go.jp, this festival began 500 years ago, when everyone compete for a paper talisman , which is called Go - o of the pastor. According to the Japanese public confidence , good things will happen to anyone who managed to get the paper fetish . After that , the number of people who ask the amulet continues to increase from year to year. However, because the paper is easily torn, the talismans and converted into wooden planks.
While shouting " Wasshoi ! Wasshoi ! ", The men who follow this festival started thronged the temples . Although the festival is held in the winter, the spirit of the participants have not decreased , but even more fiery.
Now this naked festival even be a unique tourism action which is always packed with tourists. Hadaka Matsuri was not only held in a particular city, it is spread all over the country. In other words, thousands of Japanese citizens simultaneously naked in winter just for the sake of a piece of wood.
Although participants are required to come with no clothes, but that does not mean they are coming really naked . Because the participants of the festival still have to use a loincloth, or fundhosi in Japanese . In fact some of them are still wearing short coats. Obviously, festivals held throughout Japan every year, only be followed by the men.
The festival also has a variety of names, according to the region to enable it. One of the most famous is Saidaiji Eyo Hadaka Matsuri, which is held at the Shrine Saidaiji in Okayama. There anyway, Hadaka Matsuri was first made.
Each year there are more than nine thousand people who follow the festival. They follow this festival is not without reason , the article is that anyone can catch a stick " luck " as far as 4 cm in diameter 20 cm, which was thrown from a distance of 4 meters pastor, believed to be a lucky guy all year.
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