Kanamara Matsuri - Japanese Penis Festival
In the world, India and Japan has many interesting and amazing things to see and to do. The one of the famous festival of Japan named Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus or Penis festival) is an annual Shinto fertility festival held in spring.
The Kanamara Matsuri, "Festival of the Steel Phallus" is an annual Shinto fertility festival held in Kawasaki (Kanagawa prefecture), Japan in spring held in Kanayama shrine, a local penis-venerating shrine.The festival takes place on the first Sunday of April.
The belief behind celebrating this festival is that this penis-venerating shrine was once popular among prostitutes. They used to pray for protection against any sexually transmitted diseases.
It was popular once among prostitutes who wished to pray for protection against sexually transmitted diseases. It is believed that there are divine protections also in business prosperity, easy delivery, easy marriage, and a happy married life.
There’s also a legend that a demon hid himself inside the vagina of a young girl and castrated two young men on their wedding nights. Then a blacksmith made an iron phallus that was used to break the demon’s teeth, leading to the enshrinement of the item.
There are several interesting attractions like ride of giant penises, eating phallus-shaped candy, crossdressing and a parade and many other. It may look shocking to people outside Japan. In ancient anything to do with childbirth was seen as very holy, including sex. Such habits made sexual intercourse, menstruation, childbirth and breast-feeding very sacred.
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