Hadaka Matsuri

Hadaka Matsuri (Naked Festival) is a Japanese Festival in which Japanese men wear a Fundoshi (Loincloth) and attempt to touch the Shin-Otoko (God Man) to rid themselves of bad luck.


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Konomiya Hadaka Festival

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The festival begins in mid-afternoon on the 13th day of the lunar new year when thousands of men dressed only in loincloths carry a bamboo pole covered with pieces of paper carrying the excuses of people who couldn't make it to the festival that year.

When the shin-otoko appears from the shrine the assembled men - many of them aged 23 or 42 (ages considered unlucky or yakudoshi) - converge on the shin-otoko in an effort to touch him and thus pass on their bad luck and so rid themselves of evil.

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