Shinto ritual in snow

Shinto ritual in snow

HAKODATE, Japan - A nearly naked man is splashed with cold water by another 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 the night of Jan. 14, 2012.

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