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Hirakasa Naked Pilgrimage (Iwate Prefecture)

Every year on January 8th the Hirakasa Naked Pilgrimage is held in Hachimantai City, Iwate Prefecture

Starting from Miyata Shrine in Hirakasa, the procession travels a distance of approximately 10km to Yasaka Shrine in Osara, and by undergoing this difficult and painful practice in the cold, participants pray for good health, safety for their families, and a bountiful harvest

Before the war, this was a practice practiced by men, but during the Pacific War, women who looked after the home began to pray for the continued good fortune of their husbands and sons in battle, and it became famous nationwide as "women's ascetic practice."

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