Hōnensai
harvest festival 豊年祭 hōnensai fertility festival celebrated every year march location aichi prefecture japan hōnen mean prosperous year japanese implying rich harvest matsuri festival hōnen festival ceremony celebrate blessing bountiful harvest manner prosperity fertility best known festival take place town komaki north nagoya city festival main feature shinto priest playing musical instrument parade ceremonially garbed participant allyoucandrink sake wooden phallus festival start celebration preparation tagata jinja sort food souvenir mostly phallusshaped related sold sake also passed freely large wooden barrel pm everyone gather shinmei sha start procession shinto priest say prayer impart blessing participant mikoshi well large wooden phallus carried along parade route kg pound meter inchlong – year old japanese cypress wooden phallus called youbutsu 陽物 lit male object ōowasegata 大男茎形 lit grand phallus shape object carried shrine called shinmei sha evennumbered year komaki large hill kumanosha shrine oddnumbered year shrine called tagata shrine 田縣神社 komaki tagata aichi prefecture procession make way tagata shrine phallus mikoshi spun furiously set prayer said everyone gather square outside tagata shrine wait mochi nage time crowd showered small rice cake thrown official raised platform festival concludes pm venerated shinto deity mitoshi 御歳神 mitoshinokami female deity tamahime 玉姫命 tamahimenomikoto mitoshi son shinto male deity toshigami 年神 known local ōtoshi 大歳神 ōtoshinokami grandson shinto deity susanoo tamahime princess daughter ōarata 大荒田命 ōaratanomikoto matriarch owari clan 尾張氏 husband takeinadane 健稲種命 takeinadanenomikoto two son four daughter husband death returned hometown arata situated close komaki encouraged cultivate help father ōarata honor achieved achievement inuyama city another festival sunday ōagata shrine festival includes float shaped like vulva complement phallicshaped mikoshi used festival kanamara matsuri phallic procession tagata shrine honen festival 田縣神社 豊年祭 contains photo showing many event described japan nothing say springtime like penis festival global post march httpwwwtagatajinjacomindexhtml japanese official homepage tagatajinja yamasa institute tagata jinja hounen matsuri site english archived wayback machine httpfarstridernetjapanfestivalshounenmatsuri phallus photo bit info