Hounen Matsuri

(Penis Day)

People of the town of Komaki, about 250 miles south of Tokyo, celebrate a fertility festival called Hounen Matsuri each year on March 15. The mile-long processional route to the shinto shrine of Tagata Jinja echoes with the sounds of bamboo flutes and the chant, "Hoh-sho, hoh-sho!" of men carrying this giant, erect and obviously intact penis. It was carved from a single cypress tree trunk by a 90-year-old man, and is is offered at the shrine as a symbolic prayer for hounen, a fruitful year of abundant harvests and growth for all living things. - from The Penis Book

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