Many Brits will have childhood memories of celebrating Harvest Festival, a boring event that mostly involved admiring vegetables. As is usually the case, they do this sort of thing much better in Japan.
The recently celebrated H?nen festival is a fertility festival (h?nen meaning harvest), in which the centre of attention is less focused on prize cabbages, and more about gigantic wooden penises.
The festival involves carrying the aforementioned massive penis from one shrine to another, while in the surrounding festivities, revellers enjoy penis-shaped food and pray while rubbing stone testicles.
Penis souvenirs are also available.
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