Festival for cancer prevention at Nara temple

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.

Anticancer sake festival held at Nara temple

Anticancer sake festival held at Nara temple

NARA, Japan - Women in kimono, each holding a 1-meter-long bamboo tube, serve hot sake to visitors at a festival to pray for cancer prevention at Daianji Temple in the city of Nara on Jan. 23. Sake is first poured into the bamboo tube and heated with fire before being given to visitors in the ''Sasazake Matsuri'' (bamboo leaf sake festival), which dates back to the eighth century.

Anticancer sake festival held at Nara temple

Anticancer sake festival held at Nara temple

NARA, Japan - Women in kimono, each holding a 1-meter-long bamboo tube, serve hot sake to visitors at a festival to pray for cancer prevention at Daianji Temple in the city of Nara on Jan. 23. Sake is first poured into the bamboo tube and heated with fire before being given to visitors in the ''Sasazake Matsuri'' (bamboo leaf sake festival), which dates back to the eighth century. (Kyodo)

Sake festival for good health in western Japan

Sake festival for good health in western Japan

Kimono-clad women serve hot Japanese sake -- which people drink to pray for good health -- from bamboo pitchers at a sake festival at Daianji, a Buddhist temple in Nara, western Japan, on Jan. 23, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Sake festival for good health in western Japan

Sake festival for good health in western Japan

Kimono-clad women serve hot Japanese sake -- which people drink to pray for good health -- from bamboo pitchers at a sake festival at Daianji, a Buddhist temple in Nara, western Japan, on Jan. 23, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo