thisobscuredesireforbeauty:Horace Bristol. Hadaka Matsuri Festival, Saidaiji Temple in Okayama, Ja
thisobscuredesireforbeauty: Horace Bristol. Hadaka Matsuri Festival, Saidaiji Temple in Okayama, Japan, 1946.“Young Japanese men, clad only in loincloths, dive into the crowd to search for two camphor-scented batons that have been thrown to them in utter darkness in the belief that by retrieving them, they will be granted good luck in the year ahead. The annual festival at the Saidaiji temple in Okayama attracts up to thousands of men every year.”Source This was the first picture of fundoshi I ever saw, launching a lifelong interest. -- source link