Hijacked from member R-1 who beat me to posting this. Never been and never will. Anybody want to attend such a festival? May want to attend an "eye" festival however. Words fail me... Looks like they're having fun though, so why spoil it? Via Funtasticus http://funtasticus.com/20080417/why-japan-is-a-weird-country/.
So what, a bunch of horny women (and guys dressed like women) get together to worship and enornmous...erm, dolphin?
there are more men dressed like women who women...
It's so small....
Yeah 4 feet sure is small.. :D
.............this is so wrong. Women depicted as sex objects D: so sad. But then again, JP women have been under constraint for many years by men. ;
women depicted as sex objects? I might say the same of the the international porn industry but not here. your jumping to conclusions here. this is just a simple folk festival celebrating fertility. it may seem strange to you but this thing has been going on for years. Google Hounen Matsuri to read up more, you'll find similar pictures with MEN doing the same thing.
Anyone not believe him? Read up on it: History 174, Chapter 4, Religion in Ancient Japan -- http://www.east-asian-history.net/textbooks/index.htm ...Written by Professor Gregory Smits of Penn State University
Dude those are cross dressers holding the pink 'dolphin'...
XD If anything.....I'd say it was the other way round. It is after all a giant penis, not a giant set of boobs.
dolphin day!?
isn't this the fertility festival for the women who want to get pregnent?
I'd be willing to help with this.
man you make it sound as if they are so desperate...
well...by holding i `thing` that big on the streets, I bet they are...!!! besides, IF they are pretty, why not make the charity and put out their `fire`…
I have no idea what there doing and I don't realy going to try to find out
wow...loss for words
pay your respects to the holy dolphin, he will bless you with...bukkake
heil to the dolphin of all dolphins
Not a big deal, nor is it weird. Look at any Roman decorations that have been uncovered by anthropologists. Rome was considered one of the greatest societies ever and they had windchimes, statues, you name it, shaped like penii. I'm sure the theme is the same, too, to worship the power of life and procreation and et cetera et cetera. Just because all of the puritanical countries have sticks up their collective ass.... Besides, who doesn't enjoy a giant wang festival? Now where's that raccoon with the giant balls....
you think as i do Karasu-kun. By the way, i don't think you'll be finding tanuki any time soon at this festival.
Hail~!
this is called the Hounen Matsuri. Happens every year on March 15 at a town near Nagoya. google it for more info.
Yeah... read about this a long time ago. It's an ancient festival... women touches, and I've even seen some pics of women rubbing/sitting (no, it was not pr0nz :P ) on wooden versions of (pa)chinko asking a bless from the fertility God. Yeah, it's kinda weird for us catholic western devils o_O, but just a tradition for them. Dunno if I would attend it too... maybe if I had a wife and we were planning on having kids.
my first impression really is just ... WTF ?! i don't know if i should smile or get disappointed for some reason.
This is old guys don't you watch tokyocoony's video blog on youtube he was their and did some blog about it like a month ago. I still think it's kind of funny, not weird or anything, now the cross dressers carrying the giant......thing, now thats a little weird. link to coony's vblog if you want to check it out: http://www.youtube.com/user/tokyocooney
lol at the "foreigners love penis" remark. thanks for the link...um....link
Yeah, it's old. But I never saw it on this site, and I figured it'd be a good post for a few laughs. Some people took it too seroiusly though...
any human sacrifice for this event?
We all know that you just want first crack at the virgin gordon.
my prayers are answered! ('~')
Looks like a very intresting event.
oh...the girl to right looks cute.. she can carry my dolphin anytime!
those are cross dressers...congratulations you've activated a trap card
THEY ARE?!?!?! OMFG!! ... the cute little soul inside me just died T_T..
They look really real, don't they? You need a Monster Revive YGH card?
Monster Reborn ;)
So you like YGH, too? Then, have you watched its abridged series? They're really funny if I might say so. ^^
depends, if they treat all phallus with respect... then I'm there.
incredible LOL
My I just point out, that this festival happens in a town (Kawasaki), in the province next to Tokyo, and it being such a local thing, barely anybody in the big city now about its existence at all? Just to put things a bit in context. Of course, foreigners do like making Japan a weirder country than it really is so, the festival being such a weirdness, it is an obligated visit according to the guidebooks, which causes hordes of foreigners to go there too (like myself), besides anyone else but the locals from Kawasaki. Those understanding Spanish, might want to have a look at my "report" last year at http://elmimmo.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/kanamara-matsuri/
Mmm… Danny, not editing possible right? I was typing with my elbows.
well the reason behind this festival is not that bad of a reason. ahahah love how they crave the veggies into chinko. and those bottle of water with chinko into gave me a moment of scare - thought it was some real preserved chinko
why do they censor many AV if one can see the shape of dolphin so freely?
OMG WTF.... etc.... there is no expression that can sum that picture o_o.... Please dont take me there!
OMGWTF....Yep, only in Japan.
Dolphin festival!! i just learn a new word!! lol
*Shrugs* Reminds me of one episode of Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (the seventh to be exact), where guys were carrying various things and people (including the most bizarre ones) on portable shrines. But still, male pink (WTH with the color, by the way) genitalia... *Shrugs again*
how freudan can we get? I mean, hopefully this is a celebration of fertility and sexuality but not erotic :P that'd be sad for the feminists
It's rather corageus in compersion with the rest of the world (omitting the point that Japanese don't care much about rest of the worlds' opinion ^^')
*Fist pumping(again)* DOLPHIN! DOLPHIN! Each culture to its own people. this is a learning trip, ja~?
looks like those girls are having some fun XDDD
And some of them are cute! Like the carrier girl on the bottom right hand corner.
Those are GUYS... Maybe...
My god. What a well-made trap.
I don't want to see that , never :s If one day i'll go to Japan , i hope it won't be that day ^^
ah.. no thanks. This is way too wrong. =/
Saw this on Japanorama, I don't know what the big deal is (no pun intended). No really my thing, but if I was around, I might as well take a look.
I think I remember reading an article on this festival once. I believe it's celibrating fertility. :3 Personally, I'd go.
This is one festival I definitely won't be attending....evar.....
Yeah im with u one that one, (Wonder where they are taking it?) then again i really dont want to know.
Hey i had a friend who went to one of those!!! But not that one.. honestly it's kinda disgusting but whatever let's let them do their worshipping. :D
People should research this festival before making sill comments about porn and women being sex objects. I will be going next year, spewing i couldn't make it this year!
wholeheartedly agree with you on that one.
i know the women of japan are like "if only they were really that big" ...oh well luckily for them there are some black guys in japan to even things out..LOL!!!!!!!
stereotypes...how lovely...
Missing from those photos are the dolphin dart tournament, "Bobbing For Bob", Viagra jousting competition, pole vault, limbo dancing, ring toss for stuffed animal prizes and xylophone experiments.
I had a couple friends who went to this festival. It's interesting, but not anything lewd that some people might think from first reaction. I'd like to go myself some day.
If i manage to go there in time next year, I'll create a huge replica of tenga and follow them from behind. that is what we call a complete ritual.
I'll tell you what, it sure is weird when I commented on this article while it was member news, then I see it again more recent. Kinda messes with your head.
Hooray! Youbutsu Matsuri!
Ohmigawd!
It is uncensored!
I cannot function!
{collapses to floor}
{minutes later, rises, but hits head on underside of keyboard and collapses again}
{minutes later, looks up, rises more carefully}
This is the 'fertility festival'. I am looking for the specific URL where it is mentioned in English. It is held in Kawasaki at the Kawasaki Daishi temple [Kawasaki-Daishi on the Keikyo Daishi Line].
I would be interested in going to this. But it is usually held the same weekend as the _Cinema Wasteland_ movie exposition in suburban Cleveland, OH. That is almost as much fun (from what this seems to be), but it costs a lot less money to go to Cleveland.
[I can't find it yet. I'll try again later.]
