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 rice planting performance.



At 15:30, after they finished preparation, the festival was started.


At first, the sacred horse run around the shrine 3 times.

The horse ran dangerously fast

This is representation of making rice field.




After that, HEISA go around the shrine as well.




Some audience ladies asked him for the sexual intercourse performance.



It means pray for the prosperity of  descendants.




At the last, HEISA push his phallus to NYOBOH to pray for fertility.



The player of NYOBOH is a man...but the photographers are desperately shoot their sexual intercourse...




This is the main event for audience, but not main ritual in this festival.

The sexual intercourse was just a performance to entertain the audience, it became exaggerated sexual performance gradually.




After finished HEISA and NYOBOH's performance, 2 SATSUKIME girls (girl who plants rice) go in front of shrine. They represent rice planting.



This is the main ritual for the rice planting festival maybe. But, audiences were more excited the sexual intercourse.


In JAPAN, there are a lot of "phallus" faith and festival, but playing sexual intercourse performance is a rare. I want the festival to lust for long.



DAY:May 5th every year
TIME:About 15:30~
AT:KASHIMA shrine
Ushiwata Kasumigaura-city Ibaraki-prefecture 300-0213
Take a taxi for about 30 minutes from Tsuchiura station.