HEISANBOH festival is held every May 5th at KASHIMA shrine in IBARAKI prefecture. HEISA and NYOBOH have a brake before festival This is rice planting festival to pray for fertility as like ONDA festival I introduced the other day. HEISANBOH is an abbreviation for HEISA(japanese men's name) and NYOBOH(it means wife). The origin of the name is that HEISA and NYOBOH played sexual...Read More

I heard shocking news in this January. It is "The DONTSUKU festival come to an end this year". The big phallus statue The DONTSUKU festival is held in INATORI port every year for more than  50 years. This is not small festival. But according to the news, because of lack of budget, they decided an end of the festival. So This is the...Read More

ONDA-MATSURI (MATSURI means festival) is rice-planting festival. In japan, rice-planting festivals are held at a lot of shrines, but this ONDA festival is different from others. Because in this festival, TENGU and OTAFUKU(Japanese folklore characters) have sexual intercourse performance. TENG is man. He has long nose, so the character is considered as a symbolization of phallus. And OTAFUKU is lady having white face...Read More

ON-MARA-SAMA is the folklore ritual in small village in GUMMA prefecture to protect the village from evil. It started by more than 150 years ago. "MARA" means Phallus. They make MARA from wood, put it on a bridge that is considered to be a boundary. Phallus is believed as amulet, they can ward off disease coming from outside of the boundary by hanging up...Read More