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Nagatoro Himatsuri

A Shugenja (Buddhist priests who train themselves by enduring ascetic practices) observes the religious rite of the arrival of Spring by chanting Buddhist scriptures while trudging barefoot across an eight-by-four-meter bed of blazing wood and red-hot coals.

 

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Uploaded on November 18, 2018
Taken on November 18, 2018