Naked festival at western Japan temple

Naked festival at western Japan temple

Men wearing only loincloths jostle in a bid to catch a sacred wood stick at the over-500-year-old Saidaiji Eyo festival at the Saidaiji temple in the western Japan city of Okayama on Feb. 17, 2024. A person who gets a stick is called a fukuotoko, or "lucky man."

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