Kanamara Matsuri 2010 (Festival of the Steel Phallus, かなまら祭り)

Video shot April 4, 2010
The Kanamara Matsuri is an annual Shinto fertility festival held in Kawasaki, Japan in spring. The penis forms the central theme of the event that is reflected everywhere?in illustrations, candy, carved vegetables, decorations, and a mikoshi parade.

The Kanamara Matsuri is centered around a local penis-venerating shrine once popular among prostitutes who wished to pray for protection against sexually transmitted diseases. It is said that there are divine protections also in business prosperity and the clan's prosperity, easy delivery, marriage, and married couple harmony. There is also a legend of a sharp-toothed demon that hid inside the vagina of a young girl and castrated two young men on their wedding nights (vagina dentata). As a result, the young girl sought help with a blacksmith, who fashioned an iron phallus to break the demon's teeth, leading to the enshrinement of the item.

Today, the festival has become somewhat of a tourist attraction and is used to raise money for HIV research.

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• kanamara
• matsuri
• festival
• steel
• phallus
• kawasaki
• かなまら祭り

[plagueatiful]

this is why i love japan

[hotdave86000]

Fecal Matter Is Poo......Euhhhhhh!!

ANGRY YOUNG RATS

[NeverForgetWizet]

So can this be labeled as inappropriate or what?...

[Zabuza1981]

The anxiety with which they photographed it.Interesting myth by the way.

[yukikunthc]

En eszpaña estamos retrasados!! las procesiones las hacemos con Mujeres que lloran la muerte de su hijo, y Hijos muertos y en sangrentados

q viva la vida!!

[urusaiurusaiyatsura]

In Japanese poor village, children were needed.

earnest request of them are showed in this Matsuri.