Japanese Fertility Festival

The deities enshrined in kanayama shrine the site of the festival are believed to promote sexual health and fertility as well as ward off stds and infections. Kanamara matsuri which translates as festival of the steel phallus is a shinto festival held annually on the first sunday of april in kawasaki japan.

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Those thinking that the festival of the steel penis is something outrageous and sexually intense might be a bit disappointed since this is often considered a family friendly fertility festival where both children and adults can pay tribute to the wonder of reproduction.

Japanese fertility festival. The power of the male genitalia. The phallus as the central theme of the event is reflected in illustrations candy carved vegetables decorations and a mikoshi parade. Here van sise shares his experience and some of the history behind what is perhaps the most phallic festival in the world.

Harvest festival 豊年祭 hōnensai is a fertility festival celebrated every year on march 15 in japan. The shinto kanamara matsuri かなまら祭り festival of the steel phallus is held each spring at the kanayama shrine 金山神社 kanayama jinja in kawasaki japan the exact dates vary. Category people blogs.

See who s going to kanamara matsuri 2020 in kawasaki japan. The penis is the central theme of the celebration and appears in myriad forms shapes and sizes. There was even a festival revolving around fertility and sexual health during those times but the tradition was lost in the late 1800s.

In the 1970s then chief priest hirohiko nakamura. Early april in kawasaki japan is set aside for the kanamara matsuri or the festival of the steel phallus in which a hundred thousand revelers come here to celebrate one thing. The hōnen festival and ceremony celebrate the blessings of a bountiful harvest and all manner of prosperity and fertility.

The first sunday in april marks the celebration of the shinto fertility festival the kanamara matsuri or the festival of the steel phallus known colloquially as the penis festival these festivities celebrate just that. Autoplay when autoplay is enabled a suggested video will automatically play next. Hōnen means prosperous year in japanese implying a rich harvest while a matsuri is a festival.

The main festivities fall on the first sunday in april. It is venerated here as a result of its role. Show more show less.

It started in 1978 and amusingly the festival had a much quieter existence until people began uploading youtube videos of a huge phallic structure being carried down the road and foreigners both in japan and abroad caught wind of this remarkably unusual celebration. The city of kawasaki was a major stop on the old tokaido road between tokyo and kyoto with a corresponding number of tea houses and the shrine has long been popular among.

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