Penis Parade Japan

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Here's Why Japan Has a Yearly "Penis Parade"

The inclusive story behind Japan’s well-respected Kanamara Festival.

By Gigi Fong

Apr 12, 2022

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Here's Why Japan Has a Yearly "Penis Parade"

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During the Festival of the Steel Phallus , known in Japan as Kanamara Matsuri, Japan comes together to welcome the spring and pray for “ fertility, smooth martial relationships and business prosperity .” Playfully known as the penis parade, Kanamara Matsuri showcases everything phallic from cookies to the large Mikoshi, a large pink phallus that floats throughout the celebration.
During the event, people pray to the Kanayama shrine, which honors the divine couple, Kanayamahiko-no-Kami and Kanayamahime no-Kami , or the “protectors of blacksmiths and sexuality .” Generations ago, it became popular as a gathering point for prayer as it was where sex workers would pray for protection against sexually transmitted infections and bad fortune. Patrons would also use the area as a pit stop where they would receive services from sex workers. It space doubled as a place for people suffering from all ailments to pray safely at night. Eventually, people wanted a place to pray in broad daylight, no matter who they were. Thus, the festival was born.
Another legend, tells the story of a demon who fell in love with a woman and hid inside her vagina. Unfortunately for her husband, the demon bit off the husband’s penis — twice. The woman went to a blacksmith who created a metal penis with the intention to break off the demon’s teeth. Since then, they’ve been commemorated through the Kanayama Shrine.

The shrines have since gathered a parade’s worth of support and have become a creative way to give back to underrepresented communities . During the parade, you can see men in drag carrying a large pink penis called the Elizabeth Mikoshi, donated by a drag queen club called The Elizabeth. As a way to remember those before them, all proceeds raised go directly to HIV research.

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Venue Kanayama Shrine 2 Chome-13-16 Daishi Ekimae Kawasaki , Kanagawa 210-0802 Japan + Google Map
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The Japan Penis Festival is arguably the country’s most amusing event when tens of thousands of revellers roam the streets of Kawasaki city in April to pay tribute to fertility in an age-old ritual, amidst thousands of phalluses of all sizes, shapes and colours.
Kanamara Matsuri means Festival of the Steel Phallus and is becoming more and more popular every year amongst Japanese and foreigners alike, to whom it is more commonly known as the Japan Penis Festival. The modern day purpose of the event is to raise awareness of sexually transmitted diseases and to promote safe sex, but its rituals and practices betray ties to Japan’s traditional religion of Shinto.
Central to the festival is a big mikoshi parade where human-sized phalluses are carried in divine palanquins ( mikoshis ) to the Kanayama temple. What makes this event so special, particularly in today’s divided world, is that it’s all inclusive and everyone participates in it, from families, toddlers and the elderly, to youth in traditional dress, foreign visitors and local Japanese drag queens.
The parade’s popular mikoshis include the Kanamara Fune and Big Kanamara both of which contain large, traditional phallus sculptures made respectively of steel and wood. The Elizabeth mikoshi , named after the local drag queen club, contains the largest phallus and, with its bold pink colour, is quite impossible to ignore.
Once a phallus is erected at the temple, people pray against sexually transmitted diseases, for help in conceiving a child, or for a satisfied partner. Expect young and old, men and women, licking candy penises, posing for pictures on large, wooden phalluses, learning the art of carving vegetables into penis shapes, dress like phalluses, and other penile fun – all in good faith and humour. For the over-zealous, there’s a traditional, low-alcohol sweet drink called amazake which, combined with eating a mandatory small dried fish, mimics the taste and texture of semen – according to those in the know.
The steel phallus reportedly originates from the Edo period (1603 – 1868) when, according to local legend, a demon became smitten with a lady but couldn’t bear watching her falling in love with anyone else. The logical thing for him to do then was to hide in the lady’s vagina and bite off any lover’s penis the moment it entered her. As this inconvenience kept on occurring with every new candidate she tried to sleep with, the lady had a steel penis made by a local smith on which the demon broke his teeth and then fled. All’s well that ends well.
Today, at the courtyard of the Kanayama temple, a holy, one-metre-tall steel phallus is displayed to honour fertility, childbearing and to ask for protection against STDs. Over time, prostitutes came to pray at the temple until it eventually became a tourist attraction in the seventies.
During the last decade the Japan Penis Festival has increased a lot in popularity and keeps on expanding. The profit of the phallus-shaped items for sale goes to research of HIV and other STDs. The festival’s paraphernalia are very popular, from plenty of candy and other food items to t-shirts and large carrots carved into phalluses that can be carried on the shoulder in a small mikoshi . If you want to get your hands on your own phallus souvenir then it’s best to go early as they are very popular and go quickly.
It takes place every year during the first Sunday of April, which falls on 3 April in 2022. This is also the period of the famous cherry blossom season Japan and a time of the year that marks many beginnings, from the new school year to starting another job and the financial year. Many festivals in Japan begin around this time.
Kawasaki is one of the cities forming the Greater Tokyo Area and is located about one hour south of central Tokyo. Most of the Japan Penis Festival events take place in and around the city’s Kanayama temple which is a five minutes walk from Kawasaki-Daishi Station. Alternatively, follow anyone who’s dressed like a phallus.
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Cover image by Rαge – Wikimedia Commons. Article Updated 10 February 2022.
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The Hodare festival in the city of Nagaoka is considered one of the country's biggest, and best, penis festivals - and there are a few
In the UK, it's good luck for the bride to wear something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.
But across Japan, you'll stand a better chance of marital success if the bride climbs atop a giant wooden penis and is paraded through town while waving to everyone.
The Hodare festival in the city of Nagaoka is considered one of the country's biggest, and best, penis festivals - and there are a few.
On the second Sunday of March each year, women who have wed in the past 12 months don traditional Japanese bridal gowns and straddle a totemic tool as it is carried through the streets.
The gigantic, seven foot phallus is celebrated as an emblem of good fortune, with huge crowds gathering to touch and stroke the mighty member as it passes.
The festivities are seen as bestowing fertility, marital bliss and good luck on those who participate.
"Hodare" translates into English as "male genitals", although apparently if spelled out in caps it means "ripening of rice plants" .
It is believed there have been Hodare festivals held in japan for centuries, although in recent years they have, unsurprisingly, become much bigger tourist attractions.
The parade comes after news that a housewife hacked at her husband's penis with a kitchen knife because he wouldn't have sex with her for over a decade.
Sex starved Rita Yadav almost fully detached Ved Prekash's genitals from the base during her vicious outburst, leaving him in a critical condition and with a cut that was almost four inches deep.
It took surgeons FIVE HOURS to reattach his penis and although Ved, 31, is now out of danger, he's still in hospital recovering.
Before slashing at his bits, Rita, 28, knocked out her taxi driver husband by hitting him over the head with a stone grinder.
She locked him in the bathroom following the attack at their home in Ghaziabad, northern India, on Thursday morning and then handed herself in at the local police station - telling horrified detectives that her actions were revenge.
Rita claimed that her husband refused to have sex with her for ten years of their 11-year marriage and she believed he was having an affair.
"He used to tell me he hated me," she said. "We used to fight daily and he told me he hated looking at my face. He always threatened he would have an affair.
"I was desperate to have children. I used to beg him but he said he’d make love to someone else instead. I’d been dealing with the torture for years and I couldn’t take any more."
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Thousands of people flocked to the Japanese city of Nagaoka yesterday, for its annual penis festival. Japan has several penis celebrations, but the Hodare festival is one of the country's biggest and best. The fertility festival takes place on the second Sunday of March each year, when women who have married in the past 12 months don traditional Japanese bridal gowns and straddle a wooden phallus, which is paraded through the streets.

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