Hi Watari fire walking festival


Lay priests pray and chant as Yamabushi or mountain priests walk across the embers of a large bonfire of ceder branches in the Hi Watari, fire walking, festival of Takao san Guchi near Tokyo, Japan. Sunday March 11th 2007
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