Japanese Penis Festival
The Kanamara Matsuri or Festival of the Steel Phallus is a festival held every spring in the city of Kawasaki, Japan. It celebrates this legend:
There was once a sharp-toothed demon who fell in love with a beautiful girl. When she decided to marry a man, the demon was jealous and inhabited her vagina the night before the wedding. Then, on her wedding night, the demon bit off the penis of her husband. The girl tried to get married again, and the demon bit off the penis of her second husband. Finally, the girl went to a blacksmith, who forged a steel phallus for her to use as a dildo. The demon broke his teeth on the steel phallus and he left the girl's vagina.
In celebration of this legend, there is a shrine in Kawasaki to the gods Kanayama-hiko and Kanayama-hima, who are gods of blacksmithing and metal works. In the shrine is a giant black metal penis. During the festival, men carry this black penis in a procession through the streets, above, led by a Shinto priest.
There is also a giant pink penis carried by transgender females that's more visible and gets more attention.
Other giant penises in Kawasaki include wooden ones, above ...
and another black metal one.
During the penis festival, vendors sell many things, including penis-shaped candles ...
and penis lollipops that you can lick ...
or suck.
These vendors are carving penises from vegetables.
This festival-goer has a penis nose ...
and this one has a penis hat.
Festival-goers don't actually show their own penises, but in 2012, Batman showed up in the crowd, wearing a g-string shaped like an erection ...
and otherwise almost naked.
People pray to the gods in the Shinto shrine for easy childbirth, marital harmony, and protection from sexually transmitted diseases. The festival has become a tourist attraction, and it now raises money for HIV research.
7 comments:
The trip to Japan was wonderful, until we got to Kawasaki.
Aunt Hortence and Aunt Myrtle were mortified and outraged ! :\
I told them, “Oh, Auntie dears have some cocksickles and suck away !”
While they had their cocksickles, I met up with the Batman :)
Humans do the strangest things.
Oh, I have an old manga called Jungle King Tar-chan that is basically a Tarzan parody but it's all about the penis.
The penis deserves to be celebrated.
…à la manière japonaise :)
Le cult du phallus dressé et engorgé remonte à l’Antiquité. Batman serait un succès au festival du film de Cannes et au Carnaval de Nice.
-Beau Mec
I hope batman bats for our team, woof!
While it is interesting that they celebrate, and have fun with penis replicas, it would be so much better if there were naked men there showing their real penises!
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