There's a small shrine in Kawasaki that hosts the Kanamara Fertility Festival.
Yup...that kind of fertility...huge phallus portable shrines carried around by...well, anyone willing to carry such a character around.
Young women sit atop huge wooden penises that look like totem poles, Shinto style.
Middle aged men gawk and then remember to take pictures.
Fertility related items:
prayer tables,
candles in the shape of both sexes
do some very serious sales....
Um, believers, who are having trouble procreating make serious visits to the Shrine at less attention grabbing times to ask for help in the fertility area.
In the meantime, revelers, um...well, um...revel.
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