Festival for cancer prevention at Nara temple

NARA, Japan - Women wearing kimono serve warm sake in green bamboo cylinders during "Sasazake Matsuri" (the Bamboo Sake Festival) at Daianji, a Buddhist temple in Nara, western Japan, on Jan. 23, 2014. Participants of the festival pray for cancer prevention.

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