ohh yeahhh! you heard that right. The P3nis festival, also known as Kanamara festival happens at the Kanayama Shrine in Kawasaki.
It features very phallic images in everything, from the decoration of the venue to snacks (as well as your usual festival food). The festival’s main theme is penises, which may be found in confectionery, caps, and clothes.
Around the shrine, vendors sell anything phallic-shaped or related to s3x. Every year on the first Sunday in April, the Kanayama Shrine in Japan, hosts the Kanamara Festival (かなまら祭り). This year ,2023, the p3nis festival is happening on 2nd April.
The Keikyu-Daishi Line’s Kawasaki-Daishi Station is about a three-minute walk from the temple. Foreigners who live in Japan have become more and more accustomed to the event, and they now attend it in large numbers to see the p3nis-shaped objects. If you see 50% of the population to be foreign, don’t be shocked.
The staff is very welcoming and has a basic command of English. This fellow greets visitors as they enter the shrine. The celebration has a much deeper meaning than just big p3nises being waved around with the beautiful blooms in the background, despite the overt sexual objects and sheer silliness of it all.
Pr0stitutes have traditionally visited Kanamara Shrine to offer prayers for immunity from STDs and success in their businesses.
People often go to the shrine to make prayers for simple marriages, childbirth, and marital happiness.
According to a legend, a d3vil is concealed in a young woman’s v@gina. Both of her husbands had their p3nises bit off on the wedding night, in a manner resembling a scene from Teeth. She hired a blacksmith to create an iron p3nis, which broke the demon’s teeth, because she was determined to make her third marriage a success.
Here is where the iron phallus is revered. Now, the celebration (p3nis festival) is used to increase AIDs awareness and funds. Every dollar raised during the festival is donated to humanitarian causes like the 2011 earthquake relief efforts or HIV research. The parade of movable shrines known as mikoshi, which are decorated with huge phalluses, is the festival’s main attraction.
The mikoshi bob up and down rhythmically as they pass past the shrine gates. One of the tourists noted, “The way they move is interesting. In addition to the plethora of p3nis-shaped things, there are also lots of young children.
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