What a great &%$#ing festival!
Have you heard of the Akutai Matsuri? It’s held in late November in Kasama city in Ibaraki prefecture.
This shinto festival starts with a priest and 13 tengu goblins, all dressed in white, parading along a path, chanting and making offerings at small shrines along the way.
Onlookers then traditionally scream obscenities at the parade group and try to snatch away the offerings. Offenders are kept at bay with swinging bamboo canes and regularly get whacked.
According to the Mainichi -
As onlookers outnumber the tengu, they invariably overwhelm them and snatch away their offerings. Tengu who lose what they were carrying are hurled to the ground while all around them scream out the filthiest insults they can come up with.
Snatching one of the offerings is said to imbibe the bearer with the power of the tengu’s spirit in an additional benefit to the therapeutic screaming out of foul language at the top of their voice
We have until November to prepare. I’m going to head up a British contingent. Then we’ll hear some proper &%#$ing swearing.
I’d pay real money to be there for that!
January 7th, 2007 at 10:41 amSuch typical insults as “I break wind in your general direction” or “your mother was a hampster and your father smelt of elderberries”.??
or “toss it in, you prophylactic’s on the penis’s of progress”.
or maybe a few from the Kop-Talk….”gerrout! yer numpties,bell-ends,sorry individuals..”
January 9th, 2007 at 11:35 am