Sominsai
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 1:10 AM, Sunday 1 December. (New.)
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