[INDENT]Thousands gather for fertility festival
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MSN-Mainichi Daily News, April 3, 2006. by Marvin Feltcher
KAWASAKI -- Thousands flocked to a small shrine here Sunday to take part in the Kanamara Festival, an event with roots dating back centuries and known for its huge consecrated phallus portable shrine carried mostly by transvestites.
Revelers also watched mostly young women sit atop huge wooden penises made as Shinto totems...
...Kanamara Festival is named after Kanamara Sama, or Lord Iron Penis. The festival dates back to the 17th century when Kawasaki was a station town along the Tokaido Road ...Meshimori Onna, a name meaning waitress but actually the term given to prostitutes who serviced travelers along the Tokaido, began the Kanamara Festival in the Edo Period (1604-1868), when they offered prayers at the shrine for prosperous business and protection from sexually transmitted diseases, gonorrhea in particular....more...
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Yesterday AlbertSiegel and I went to Kanamara PENIS festival to parade around town with three penis mikoshi (portable shrines). The picture is of the pink Kanamara-sama (Lord Big Iron Penis) of the portable shrine carried by tranvestites called the "Elizabeth" mikoshi. Albert and I met fellow fuckedgaijin Captain Japan, but somehow we couldn't find FGs Marvin, GomiGirl and beau who were also there, meh.
