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While the women will remain fully clothed and avoid the traditional violent clash of near-naked men in loincloths
Welp, there go my travel plans...
Go to a nudist beach once and you will change your mind on that
You underestimate my desire for a co-ed loincloth festival brawl...
You son of a bitch, I’m in!
Only being interested in beautiful people is too capitalist for me. I appreciate seeing the human body exposed regardless.
I appreciate the fact that people are cool with showing off like that.
Like that takes confidence that I don’t have.
Now quit with that damn commie talk. ;P
There's some pretty nice bodies at the nude beaches I've been to
just by the by, the Japanese name for it SHOULD just translate to "naked festival" the "man" is an English inclusion.
Yep. 裸祭り -> hadaka matsuri -> naked festival
The people who run that shrine (shriners? Shrinekeepers? Shrinarians?) clearly don't know what the word "naked" means 🙄
the loincloths are made out of square pixels.
Fair enough 😁
Shrinarians 😂😂
shriners?
神主 (kannushi) is apparently the term for the head priest. Not sure who made the decision, though.
Imagine how weird we must seem to any extraterrestrial life that’s capable of observing us
Look if they've come however many million light years just to creep on us without saying hi then they have no right to judge
I mean would you want to say hi to us after seeing us
How do we know they don't have naked festivals too.
I think they mean we're weird because we make women be fully dressed at a naked festival
And they are fasinated by butts
They may as well do these every week and see us as anxious cowards.
Japan allows women (...)
A shrine in Japan which is legally distinct from the Japanese government (especially post-WWII)
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A group of local women in Inazawa, in Japan’s Aichi prefecture, are all set to join the annual Hadaka Matsuri, held in February at the Konomiya shrine.
Men typically wear a minimal ensemble, consisting of a Japanese loincloth known as a fundoshi and a pair of white socks called tabi.
At a press conference recently, she said: “I’d like to pray for the safety of my family and for the people affected by the Noto peninsula earthquake [which struck Japan this month].
Mitsugu Katayama, an official of the organising committee told South China Morning Post: “We have not been able to hold the festival like we used to for the past three years because of the pandemic and, in the time, we received a lot of requests from women in the town to take part.”
As many rural communities face population decline due to young people migrating to cities for employment, towns are left predominantly inhabited by the elderly and infirm.
The need for increased participation in ancient traditions, regardless of gender, is seen as crucial to ensuring the continuation of cultural practices in the face of declining community populations.
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Oh. That’s neat