January 10, 2008
Japanese Train System Rejects Somin Festival Poster
The festival? I'll give you the article's description,
Oh, stop, its not that gay!
The organizers of the festival have always been allowed to be put up, but this year have been rejected because the men in the picture were naked. The government then 'shopped loincloths on the men, but that version was rejected too.
The northern city of Oshu each February draws thousands of tourists with its Somin Festival, in which naked men pile upon one another and frolic about late into the night to pray for good luck.
Oh, stop, its not that gay!
The organizers of the festival have always been allowed to be put up, but this year have been rejected because the men in the picture were naked. The government then 'shopped loincloths on the men, but that version was rejected too.
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"Somin" Festival, hunh? I think the translator put some other vowels in where e's should have gone.
Posted by: geoff at January 10, 2008 10:31 PM (xOHp+)
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Heh, that's so true.
Posted by: doubleplusundead at January 10, 2008 10:34 PM (P17op)
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NTTAWWT
Posted by: doubleplusundead at January 10, 2008 10:34 PM (P17op)
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I needed more description after that titillating intro (I mean, there had to be more to it than just naked men piling on each other, didn't there?) so I found:
"With 1000 years of history, 'Somin-sai' is renowned as one of the three oddest and most peculiar festivals in Japan. Sparks, flames, fire and nude men are featured through several night-long events starting from 'hadaka-mairi' to entreat the gods to grant good harvests and help avert unexpected disasters. 'Sominbukuro-no-sodatsusen', the climactic end of the festival is a fierce scramble for 'komagi' (pieces of wood) and a sack that contained those lucky bits of lumber. Braving frigid temperatures, uninhibited naked men shove and smash against each other until dawn."
"With 1000 years of history, 'Somin-sai' is renowned as one of the three oddest and most peculiar festivals in Japan. Sparks, flames, fire and nude men are featured through several night-long events starting from 'hadaka-mairi' to entreat the gods to grant good harvests and help avert unexpected disasters. 'Sominbukuro-no-sodatsusen', the climactic end of the festival is a fierce scramble for 'komagi' (pieces of wood) and a sack that contained those lucky bits of lumber. Braving frigid temperatures, uninhibited naked men shove and smash against each other until dawn."
Posted by: geoff at January 10, 2008 10:36 PM (xOHp+)
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Well, there you go.
Posted by: doubleplusundead at January 10, 2008 10:43 PM (P17op)
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