Sominsai

7:10 PM to 8:00 PM
Sunday 1 December
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This year saw the end of Sominsai, a festival in which loinclothed men plunge into freezing water, are enveloped in smoke, and jostle through the night to grasp a lucky sack as a form of prayer.

Sominsai airs on NHK World HD at 7:10 PM, Sunday 1 December.
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