Above: Girls dressed as shrine maidens walk past sake barrels during the Kanamara Festival, a fertility ritual, at Wakamiya Hachimangu Shrine in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo April 6, 2008. The festival, which is held annually on the first Sunday of April, is believed to bring good luck and fertility blessings. REUTERS/Issei Kato (JAPAN)
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A 300-year-old fertility festival at a Japanese shrine celebrates the coming of spring with raunchy symbols carried through public streets.
The Kanamara fertility festival, with its trademark parades of portable phallic shrines, is widely known, not only to locals but also foreigners, who make up nearly half this day's crowd.
Source: Reuters
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