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?
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Posted on 2008/05/09 13:36
Director/代表取締役
登録日: 2006/12/11 11:06
Student (for-ev-er)
登録日: 2008/02/21 08:37
So what, a bunch of horny women (and guys dressed like women) get together to worship and enornmous...erm, dolphin?
"student"
登録日: 2008/03/27 06:19
there are more men dressed like women who women...
Otaku/Student
登録日: 2007/02/27 10:26
Student/Young artist
登録日: 2008/03/11 07:19
Yeah 4 feet sure is small..
:D
Accountant, CPA, CIS, and Gundam Painter
登録日: 2007/11/04 04:15
.............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. ;
Stigmata Martyr
登録日: 2007/04/22 12:13
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.
U.S. Army Officer
登録日: 2008/04/22 10:01
Secretary
登録日: 2008/01/08 09:58
Dude those are cross dressers holding the pink 'dolphin'...
Student...darkly cute :3
登録日: 2008/05/08 14:57
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.
Student
登録日: 2007/11/25 06:34
UCR Student
登録日: 2007/12/10 18:35
isn't this the fertility festival for the women who want to get pregnent?
Scientist, unemployed.
登録日: 2008/01/20 06:57
I'd be willing to help with this.
Chef, Full fledged Otaku, Full time Observer.....
登録日: 2008/02/02 00:26
man you make it sound as if they are so desperate...
Roddy in currently in Lisbon-Portugal
graduate studant (TV Broadcasting & Cinema )
登録日: 2008/04/14 22:33
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`…
PEace in South Houston, Tx
登録日: 2008/02/24 04:25
I have no idea what there doing and I don't realy going to try to find out
Student
登録日: 2008/03/08 16:19
pay your respects to the holy dolphin, he will bless you with...bukkake
student
登録日: 2007/07/07 20:34
heil to the dolphin of all dolphins
大学生徒
登録日: 2007/07/27 12:01
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....
Stigmata Martyr
登録日: 2007/04/22 12:13
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.
Programmer
登録日: 2008/04/29 10:59
Stigmata Martyr
登録日: 2007/04/22 12:13
this is called the Hounen Matsuri. Happens every year on March 15 at a town near Nagoya. google it for more info.
Hikikomori
登録日: 2007/08/22 05:30
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.
freelance digital artist
登録日: 2007/12/21 02:48
my first impression really is
just ... WTF ?!
i don't know if i should smile or get disappointed for some reason.
Student
登録日: 2008/04/23 10:35
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
Stigmata Martyr
登録日: 2007/04/22 12:13
lol at the "foreigners love penis" remark. thanks for the link...um....link
R-1 in the "Hagane" docking bay
Personal Trooper
登録日: 2007/07/05 20:49
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...
宅男 Otaku/ 工程师 Engineer
登録日: 2007/06/11 14:57
any human sacrifice for this event?
Meat Puppet
登録日: 2007/11/04 18:16
We all know that you just want first crack at the virgin gordon.
宅男 Otaku/ 工程师 Engineer
登録日: 2007/06/11 14:57
my prayers are answered! ('~')
GTR in Minnesota, United States
登録日: 2008/02/29 17:04
Looks like a very intresting event.
Musically inclined Pervert
登録日: 2008/05/06 21:07
oh...the girl to right looks cute..
she can carry my dolphin anytime!
Stigmata Martyr
登録日: 2007/04/22 12:13
those are cross dressers...congratulations you've activated a trap card
Musically inclined Pervert
登録日: 2008/05/06 21:07
THEY ARE?!?!?! OMFG!! ... the cute little soul inside me just died T_T..
Polytechnic Freshman. Mmm... fresh.
登録日: 2007/01/25 21:20
They look really real, don't they? You need a Monster Revive YGH card?
Non-profit org. volunteering work addict
登録日: 2006/12/31 22:48
ひきこもり/Hikikomori. Suits my current state more than a 大学生/University Student. ^^
登録日: 2007/12/04 23:16
So you like YGH, too?
Then, have you watched its abridged series? They're really funny if I might say so. ^^
Musician
登録日: 2007/11/07 16:52
depends, if they treat all phallus with respect... then I'm there.
Game Designer
登録日: 2008/03/14 19:01
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.
dannychoo.com no aidokusha
登録日: 2007/12/25 23:02
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
orang_jahat in Paasu, Osutoraria (in the tsundere, i mean tundra)
Otaku level 10
登録日: 2008/04/07 11:57
why do they censor many AV if one can see the shape of dolphin so freely?
Information Designer
登録日: 2007/06/01 07:01
OMG WTF.... etc.... there is no expression that can sum that picture o_o....
Please dont take me there!
Evil King in Vlaardingen, the Netherlands, Earth
Student and full-time otaku
登録日: 2007/12/19 00:24
OMGWTF....Yep, only in Japan.
Structural Engineer
登録日: 2007/01/15 21:17
Dolphin festival!! i just learn a new word!! lol
Non-profit org. volunteering work addict
登録日: 2006/12/31 22:48
*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*
Philosopher in training
登録日: 2008/05/04 02:07
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
Perv
登録日: 2007/11/11 03:20
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 ^^')
Polytechnic Freshman. Mmm... fresh.
登録日: 2007/01/25 21:20
*Fist pumping(again)* DOLPHIN! DOLPHIN! Each culture to its own people. this is a learning trip, ja~?
Henry in Makati, Philippines
anime/cosplay events organizer
登録日: 2006/12/25 19:17
looks like those girls are having some fun XDDD
ひきこもり/Hikikomori. Suits my current state more than a 大学生/University Student. ^^
登録日: 2007/12/04 23:16
And some of them are cute! Like the carrier girl on the bottom right hand corner.
Part human, part student, 100% loser
登録日: 2007/10/22 02:10
Those are GUYS... Maybe...
ひきこもり/Hikikomori. Suits my current state more than a 大学生/University Student. ^^
登録日: 2007/12/04 23:16
My god. What a well-made trap.
figs seller by the end of the year
登録日: 2007/11/05 18:10
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 ^^
オタク by moonlight, Graphic Designer by daylight
登録日: 2007/11/08 03:37
ah.. no thanks. This is way too wrong. =/
Full time employment
登録日: 2007/11/12 07:03
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.
Student
登録日: 2007/10/22 10:02
I think I remember reading an article on this festival once.
I believe it's celibrating fertility. :3
Personally, I'd go.
Leisure Consultant, Writer, Webmaster
登録日: 2008/01/29 07:28
This is one festival I definitely won't be attending....evar.....
Otaku
登録日: 2008/05/06 20:42
Yeah im with u one that one, (Wonder where they are taking it?) then again i really dont want to know.
Student/Young artist
登録日: 2008/03/11 07:19
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
Software Engineer
登録日: 2007/11/06 13:37
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!
Stigmata Martyr
登録日: 2007/04/22 12:13
wholeheartedly agree with you on that one.
Demonik Ninja Musician
登録日: 2008/01/19 19:58
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!!!!!!!
Stigmata Martyr
登録日: 2007/04/22 12:13
stereotypes...how lovely...
Mind Navigator
登録日: 2007/09/04 11:37
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.
Studio Photographer
登録日: 2008/05/10 10:50
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.
Visualizer, Advertising
登録日: 2007/08/26 02:35
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.
Student (for-ev-er)
登録日: 2008/02/21 08:37
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!
Monster raving loony
登録日: 2008/03/30 09:23
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.]
O_o Working o_O
登録日: 2007/12/19 16:31
collecting figures ;)
登録日: 2008/03/20 12:43
why the color pink? does it symbolise somethng?
student
登録日: 2008/01/05 16:31
wtf, this is so wrong.....
daughter : okaasan, why do you keep staring at the big pink thingy?
mother : ....(speechless)
