Annual wall-climbing event at Mie shrine

Annual wall-climbing event at Mie shrine

KUWANA, Japan - A horse and rider climb up a 2-meter steep mud wall at Tado Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, on May 4, 2014, during a festival to pray for good harvests.

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