Giant rice cake is being unloaded to the Haiden Hall of Konomiya Shrine.

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The huge rice cake will be offered to the deity of the shrine on the eve of an annual "Naked Man" festival. The so-called "mirror rice cake" consists of two round pieces, the smaller measuring meters in diameter placed atop the larger measuring meters in diameter. The overall weight of the cake is about 4 tones.

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Location: Inazawa, Aichi, Japan
Photo credit: © Julian Krakowiak / Alamy / Afripics
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