
2016 Kanamara Penis Festival (24 images)
Although the modern Kanamara Penis Festival only started in 1977 if celebrates a much older legend about a penis eating demon that hid inside a young woman's vagina. The woman had a steel phallus made atKana yama Shrine in Kawasaki Daishi and tricked the demon into biting down on it, breaking all its teeth and freeing her of it. Kanayama Shrine was a well known shrine for sword making and metal work and a foundry still exists there which is lit with sacred fire on the day of the festival. It...
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Penis shaped candles on sale at the Kanamara...
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Wooden votive tablets called Ema praying for...
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Japanese men wearing joke glasses with penis...
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Japanese men wearing joke glasses with a penis...
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A Japanese woman licks a penis shaped lollipop...
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A large pink phallus carried on a mikoshi or...
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Festival supporters prepare to carry mikoshi or...
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Festival supporters prepare to carry mikoshi or...
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Festival supporters carry mikoshi or portable...
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Festival supporters carry mikoshi or portable...
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Festival supporters carry mikoshi or portable...
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Festival supporters carry and wave a huge flag...
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Festival supporters carry and wave a huge flag...
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Festival supporters carry and wave a huge flag...
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Festival supporters carry mikoshi or portable...
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An older Japanese woman plays with a large...
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A western man wearing a tiger hat licks penis...
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A western man licks a penis shaped lollipop...
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A Japanese man licks a vagina- shaped lollipop...
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Tourist joke with a dildo and penis shaped...
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Two transvestites, one dressed as a little...
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Festival supporters carry mikoshi or portable...
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Shrine workers and shrine maidens collect...
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Shrine workers and collect donations and give...