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Phalluses at Buddhist Marakannon temple

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2010-01-26 06:00:00

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Fertility temple in Tawarayama Onsen, Japan. There is no way around it, it is a temple dedicated to phalli and they are everywhere in the forest surrounding the temple: some big, some in metal, some grotesque, some stylized in wood and some with very shiny heads. ^_^;; I like the omikuji (random fortunes written on strips of paper at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan) tied to the tree shwoing that it is a proper Buddhist temple
Not unsurprisingly, the town of Tawarayama Onsen makes for interesting souvenir shopping. Sorry for the lousy composition, but the area was dark (see exposure) and I didn't have a tripod with me (no pun intended)

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