Anticancer sake festival held at Nara temple

Anticancer sake festival held at Nara temple

NARA, Japan - Women in kimono, each holding a 1-meter-long bamboo tube, serve hot sake to visitors at a festival to pray for cancer prevention at Daianji Temple in the city of Nara on Jan. 23. Sake is first poured into the bamboo tube and heated with fire before being given to visitors in the ''Sasazake Matsuri'' (bamboo leaf sake festival), which dates back to the eighth century. (Kyodo)

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