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Tagata Fertility Festival

Here is a video about the Tagata Fertility Festival, also known as the Hounen Matsuri and the Penis Festival,m whicih takes place at Tagata Jinja which is near Komaki City…about 30 minutes north of Nagoya where I live. While there, I ran into another Japundit contributor, Samurai Dave.





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