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Temple Kokuseki-Ji Naked Festival
(Kokusekiji Hadaka Matsuri ,Japan)

***** Location: Temple Kokuseki-Ji
***** Season: New Year, February 11
***** Category: Observance

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Explanation

This festival takes plase at a Temple in Mizusawa Town, Iwate prefecture in Northern Japan, during the coldest month of the year. According to the Old Lunar Calendar, it is the night of the Old New Year, from day seven to eight.

Men of unlucky ages (25 and 42) dressed only in loincloths take part in purification rituals throughout the night, climaxing in a vigorous struggle for wooden charms.

It is also called Sominsai 蘇民祭.
Somin is the name of a deity who protects against evil, Somin Shoorai 蘇民将来.
A talisman is packed in a sack (somin bukuro) and the men hustle to take hold of it.

The Temple Kokuseki-Ji was founded by the priest Gyooki 行基　during the Nara period in 729 and now belongs to the Tendai Sect of Esoteric Buddhism. The festival takes place at the Hall of Yakushi Nyorai.

The festival proceeds in various stages and preparations start already a month ago. It beging with a water purification of the participants, where all men poor icecold water over the naked bodies whilst shouting : Jaaso, Jaaso, Jaasa!









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