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	Tagata Jinja Hounen Matsuri - Japanese fertility festival
		The Hounen festival at Tagata shrine is one of the most famous (or infamous?) festivals in Japan.
		Amongst foreigners visiting Aichi Prefecture it is frequently referred to as the "penis shrine", or "Japanese penis festival", primarily due to the ancient Hounen Matsuri (a festival celebrating fertility and renewal), which is held here every March 15th.
		In this way the Hounen matsuri is similar to other fertility rituals around the world.
	www.yamasa.org /japan/english/destinations/aichi/tagata_jinja.html (2326 words)

	Fertility Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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		Hounen Matsuri, a festival with wooden phalli - Festival for a prosperous year.
		whatsonwhen.com - Tagata Fertility Festival (Hounen Matsuri) - The Tagata Fertility Festival involves the procession of a two-metre long, phallus-shaped wooden sculpture along the main street of the small farming town...
	www.best-fertility.info /fertility-festival.html (548 words)

	On fertile ground - ArchiveAsia - Travel
		It was a glorious Japanese spring morning when we set out for Komaki's Hounen Matsuri, literally Festival for a Prosperous Year or Fertility Festival.
		On March 15 each year, large wooden phalli (dankon) are paraded along the streets of Komaki, just north of Nagoya, as part of an ancient Shinto ritual designed to encourage both procreation and a bountiful harvest.
		Cakeless I might have been, but I went away from the Hounen Matsuri with the heady feeling that I had been witness to something sacred and special, with its roots lying in the ancient traditions of Japanese life.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2005/02/25/1109180075290.html (646 words)

	Search the Internet - InternetDJ.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hina Matsuri - - Provides origin, tradition, celebrations, and e-greetings for this celebration in March.
		Hina Matsuri - - Describes Japan's annual Hina Matsuri held on March 3rd.
		Hounen Matsuri - - Annotoated photo guide to the famous Honen Festival in Komaki, Aichi.
	www.internetdj.com /search/search.php?browse=/Regional/Asia/Japan/Society_and_Culture/Celebrations_and_Holidays (281 words)

	Japan Travel Tips
		They range from the bizarre - at Kanamara Matsuri the locals parade a large pink penis up and down the main street - to the spectacular - during the Cherry Blossom festival parks across Japan become awash in a sea of pink blossoms.
		Hina Matsuri translates into "doll festival" but this fun holiday is more commonly known as Girls Day and is celebrated every March 3rd.
		Not to be outdone, every March 15th, the small town of Komaki, Japan celebrates Hounen Matsuri.
	www.southtravels.com /asia/japan/traveltips/festivalsholidays.html (799 words)

	Bizarre Festivals, Weird Festivals, Crazy Events - Festivals and Events from 2camels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In Gloucestershire, England contestants in the Cooper's Hill Cheese Roll risk life and limb rolling down a ridiculous precipice in pursuit of a chunk of Double Gloucester while in Komaki, Japan the festival of Hounen Matsuri sees the locals parade a large wooden penis up and down their city streets.
		Well, the Hounen matsuri (festival), held annually at Komaki's Tagata-jinja shrine, provides plenty of opportunities for all present to get their hands on some outsized phalli.
		As an avid attendee of matsuri (traditional festivals) across my adopted home country of Japan, I had thought there was little to touch them in terms of color, vivacity and raw animism.
	www.2camels.com /bizarre_festivals/index.php3 (1433 words)

	Festivals
		Other famous Mikoshi festivals include the Kanda Matsuri (with 70 Mikoshi on May 15th at the Kanda Jinja Shrine in Tokyo near Kanda station), and the Sanno Matsuri from June 10-16th at the Hie-jinja in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.
		During the Hamamatsu Matsuri, which will be held from May 3rd to 5th this year, more than 150 teams compete in a spectacular ‘Kite Fighting’ competition in which giant kites are flown in a battle to cut the strings of the other teams’ kites.
		TAKEUCHI MATSURI - More of a street fight than a festival, the Takeuchi Matsuri is one of the most rough and tumble events in Japan.
	www3.tky.3web.ne.jp /~edjacob/festival.html (2814 words)

	CANOE -- TRAVEL: - Magnificent Matsuri
		That's where the chosen, brave few, encouraged by cup after cup of sake courage, will clamber aboard, ready to ride that tree like a murderous toboggan as it gouges a notch out of the mountainside.
		Festivals -- or matsuri -- should be on every visitor's to-do list in Japan.
		* Tagata Hounen Matsuri (Komaki, Aichi-ken, March 15) -- Tagata Jinja is a small fertility shrine in a small town that draws thousands to its bizarre Hounen festival, flocking here to view one of the world's largest collections of penis-shaped carvings.
	www.canoe.ca /Travel/Asia/Far-East/2004/10/29/pf-692248.html (772 words)

	Shinto 5
		In addition children age three, five and seven are honored and blessed by the priest on November 15 on the so-called "three-five-seven matsuri." May 5th used to be celebrated as "Boy's Day," (tango-no-seku) but is now celebrated as children's day.
		or matsuri are very much a part of Shinto commemorations of different aspects of life.
		Hounen Matsuri in the Nagoya region of Japan which is essentially a fertility celebration.
	www.csupomona.edu /~plin/ews431/shinto5.html (663 words)

	HAM - Asia - Japan - 6
		Then a master craftsman using traditional tools and wearing ritually-purified clothing slowly carves the tree trunk to be a giant phallus that will be featured in the parade that year.
		After that year's Hounen Matsuri is finished, the giant phallus is stored here.
		It is important to remember that people do not actually worship the giant phallus.
	www.homoerotimuseum.net /gal/gal05/906.html (141 words)

	fertility festival
		Hounen Penis Festival, Hadaka (Naked) Festival, The Hari Kuyo Pin Festival, Tezutsuhanabi Fireworks Festival, Hamamatsu Kite Festival, Takeuchi Festival...
		All about the Hounen Matsuri in Komaki, Japan.
		Festival of the Steel Phallus - Kanamara Matsuri Festival - Check out one of Japan's fertility festivals where a large, pink penis is paraded down the main...
	www.fertility-pregnancy.com /fertilitypregnancy/7/fertility-festival.html (264 words)

	Festivals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Today spectacular mikoshi are carried through the river and the whole thing finishes up with a fireworks display.
		Article on the history of Gion Matsuri and similar festivals and their links to the beginning of drama.
		This modern festival was started in 1950 by a group of snow-sculpting students.
	www.storyjapan.com /Festivals.htm (108 words)

	wheee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It's pretty hard to describe the experience of Hounen Matsuri with words, so luckily I took pictures.
		Apparently the Hounen Matsuri in Komaki, just north of Nagoya, is the Japanese festival most-heavily-attended by foreigners.
		It's the Hounen Matsuri (豊年祭), also known among foreigners as the "Penis Festival" (not a literal translation).
	www.laufamily.us /alexblog (3049 words)

	Hounen Matsuri
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		See what the shrine that holds "the big one" is like and learn about the history of Hounen Matsuri!
		See here the centerpiece of the infamous Hounen Matsuri.
	farstrider.net /Japan/Festivals/HounenMatsuri (149 words)

	Penis Day - Hounen Matsuri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		People of the town of Komaki, about 250 miles south of Tokyo, celebrate a fertility festival called Hounen Matsuri each year on March 15.
		The mile-long processional route to the shinto shrine of Tagata Jinja echoes with the sounds of bamboo flutes and the chant, "Hoh-sho, hoh-sho!
		It was carved from a single cypress tree trunk by a 90-year-old man, and is is offered at the shrine as a symbolic prayer for hounen, a fruitful year of abundant harvests and growth for all living things.
	www.circumstitions.com /Penisday.html (96 words)

	Fun_People Archive - 3 Mar - FOTD - The Hounen Matsuri, 3/15 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Fun_People Archive - 3 Mar - FOTD - The Hounen Matsuri, 3/15
		If you had, then the Hounen Matsuri would surely have proven you very wrong.
		The Hounen Matsuri, or Tagata Fertility Festival, takes place every March 15th in Komaki, a town about 2 hours from Tokyo, and it is a very special festival indeed.
	www.langston.com /Fun_People/2000/2000AGD.html (381 words)

	STA Travel and ISIC Travelmax - Events: Tagata Fertility Festival (Hounen Matsuri) (Tagata Jinja, Komaki, Japan) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Tagata Fertility Festival involves the procession of a two-metre long, phallus-shaped wooden sculpture along the main street of the small farming town of Komaki.
		The festival, Hounen Matsuri, is an offering to the local Shinto deities in the hope of a bountiful harvest.
		The Japanese folk religion, Shinto, is responsible for a number of unusual rituals.
	travelmax.statravel.co.uk /sisp/xsl/lp?fx=event&event_id=23550 (364 words)

	Christmas, Winter Solstice and Penis Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I don't observe Hounen Matsuri either, but I've never heard anybody suggest that this is an indicator of possible abuse in my childhood.
		I wonder if other people are as tolerant of religious diversity as I am tolerant of them.
		I could no more pretend to celebrate Hounen Matsuri than I could pretend to celebrate Christmas.
	unquietmind.com /devoid.html (1842 words)

	Nintendophiles Forums - View Single Post - Brazilian town officially recognizes "Orgasm Day"; Women find out ...
		Hounen Matsuri is actually a "festival for a prosperous year," and there's really nothing at all dirty about it.
		In fact, the festival is organized by a bunch of shinto priests who also provide musical entertainment during the event.
		And while not that many Japanese people know about the festival, Hounen Matsuri finds its way into American media a lot.
	www.n-philes.com /forums/showpost.php?p=343710&postcount=8 (112 words)

	Tagata
		And in Japan, locals know the season has arrived when throngs of excited folks pull out erect phallus of all shapes and sizes and dance in the streets.
		It's called the Hounen Matsuri, or Tagata Penis Festival, and its held every Spring at the Tagata Jinja Shrine in Komaki, Japan.
		You have to feel pretty comfortable about your masculinity to suck on a penis shaped lollipop, no? When the folks in Komaki pull out their 1000-pound penis, you can bet it's not just the ladies who start to fantasize.
	www.homestead.com /bigmouthgirl/Tagata.html (745 words)

	Hounen Matsuri: Tagata Shrine
		Thought to be benefical by by many Japanese and obscene by many Westerners, Hounen Matsuri is held on March 15th every year in the small town of Komaki, which is just outside of Nagoya.
		The festival and ceremony celebrate the blessings of a bountiful harvest and all manner of prosperity and fertility.
		These objects are also occasionally loaned out to people who request a blessing from the shrine.
	farstrider.net /Japan/Festivals/HounenMatsuri/Tagata.htm (360 words)

	Hounen Matsuri et cetera \| MetaFilter
		February 22, 2003 5:56 AM Hounen Matsuri is Japanese and means Festival for a prosperous year.
		Not many Japanese know about this Matsuri, and they are very surprized [QuickTime video] when they hear about it for the first time.
		Hundreds of half-naked, drunk men stand in a small area outside of a shrine after walking from their village carrying a donation of bamboo.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/23786 (504 words)

	Pilot Guides.com: The Dance of Fools: Awa Odori Festival, Japan
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		The Japanese festival experience exemplifies beautifully the inevitable flip side of a conservative culture.
		Top of the list must be the Hounen Matsuri (pronounced "hoe-nen matt-sury")"bountiful year" festival, otherwise known as the "fertility festival".
	www.pilotguides.com /destination_guide/asia/japan/hounen_matsuri.php (680 words)

	Mirago : Regional: Asia: Japan: Society and Culture: Celebrations and Holidays
		Hina Matsuri - Provides origin, tradition, celebrations, and e-greetings for this celebration in March.
		Hounen Matsuri - Annotoated photo guide to the famous Honen Festival in Komaki, Aichi.
		Japanese Festivals and Celebrations - A collection of photos and descriptions of how Japanese celebrate.
	www.mirago.com /scripts/dir.aspx?cat=Top/Regional/Asia/Japan/Society_and_Culture/Celebrations_and_Holidays (259 words)

	Res Gestae Cyaluminus: March 2004 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		First, there's the Hounen Matsuri ("fruitful year festival") held by Tagata Shrine in Komaki every March 15.
		Then there's the Kanamara Matsuri, put on by Wakamiya Hachimangu Shrine in Kawasaki every year at the end of March or beginning of April.
		There are apparently a number of smaller, similar festivals around Japan in the springtime, often set to coincide with Hanami (Cherry Blossom Festival).
	www.reediejournals.com /blogs/212/archives/2004_03.html (1583 words)

	jwz - that's the biggest fruitbat I've ever seen
		I'm glad to see that the tradition is still intact.
		This may be related to Hounen Matsuri, which is a fertility festival that employs mock penises.
		It apparently used to be held everywhere, but the festival has disappeared most places in Japan, possibly because modern Japanese are just as embarrassed as Westerners about carrying around sculpture of immense penises.
	jwz.livejournal.com /197552.html (382 words)

	Hounen Matsuri, a festival with wooden phalli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Click on the above image to enter a tour to the Hounen Matsuri at the Tagata Shrine.
		All the fotos of the Hounen Matsuri are taken by Peter Thoeny (using a digital camera or scanned color prints).
		The photos are copyrighted, please contact the author for any further publication.
	www.thoeny.com /peter/tagata (109 words)

	SeekJapan.jp \| Japanzine Online: Japan's No1. National Magazine for Foreigners in Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Witness the bizarre spectacle that is the annual Hounen Matsuri, held at Tagata Shrine on Wednesday 15th.
		In a Shinto fertility rite that dates back to long before this kind of thing was considered a bit “ooh-er”, the locals celebrate the schlong in style, with a cavalcade of replica members, cock-shaped candies and the like.
		Having encouraged everyone last month to take the day off in order to make it to the Hadaka [Naked] Matsuri and then singularly failed to do so myself, I feel no shame in urging a similar course of action this time around.
	www.seekjapan.jp /page1.php?id=579 (1484 words)

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