Japanese men seen carrying a replica of a phallus during the festival. Honen festival is a traditional famous festival in Tagata Jinja Shrine, komaki, Aichi prefecture, Japan. The festival is held every March 15, and in it, a newly carved phallus from Japanese cypress, more than 60 cm in diameter and 2 m long, is carried by a parade of men of an "unlucky age" and offered to the shrine with prayers for a good harvest, flourishing of all natural things and prosperous descendants.

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