Splash!
I wish I was there!
Water is hurled over portable shinto shrine carriers, at a summer festival at the Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine festival in Tokyo.
Where I lived before, in Hongo, Bunkyo ku in central Tokyo, I once participated in a smaller shrine-carrying event, and my neighbours invited me to help carry the heavy box around the small streets. There was no water-hurling, though, but it was lots of fun.
(Photo from Mainichi)
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