Japan in the nude
What is Hadaka Matsuri? Explore the Japanese "Nude Festival" to gain luck!
The Hadaka Matsuri ("Naked Festival") is a traditional Japanese festival held in Saidaiji Kannonin Temple in Okayama Prefecture. The festival is held every year on the twelfth day of the Chinese calendar's first month. The festival consists of two days of fighting between men dressed as demons and priests spray cold water with ladles at all participants. And finally, a lucky person will be crowned "naked man" for the year by grabbing one of two sacred sticks from a crowd of other men that have been whipped into a frenzy by hours of battle and cold water.