Traditional festival in Japan

Traditional festival in Japan

About 10,000 men wearing only loincloths jostle in hopes of catching two lucky sacred wooden sticks at the annual Saidaiji Eyo festival, the 509th of its kind, in the main hall of the Saidaiji Kannonin temple in Okayama, western Japan, on Feb. 17, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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