Fire festival at Kumano Nachi Grand Shrine

SHINGU, Japan - White-robbed local people carry 12 huge burning torches of cypress wood at the climax of an annual fire festival at Kumano Nachi Grand Shrine in the town of Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, on July 14, 2010. (Kyodo)

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