Shinto ritual in snow

Shinto ritual in snow

HAKODATE, Japan - An almost naked young man is splashed with cold water by another young man in the snow during a 180-year-old Shinto ritual for bumper fish and farm crops at a shrine in the town of Kikonai, Hokkaido, in northern Japan, on Jan. 13, 2011.

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