Japan Festival - About 10,000 males gather for annual naked festival in Japan

Around 10,000 guys accumulated at the yearly Naked Festival in Okayama, Japan to celebrate the "Hadaka Matsuri", a wild celebration held each year on the third Saturday of February at the Saidaiji Kannonin Temple, Japan.

In the occasion, the men go through an hour or two going around the sanctuary grounds and refine themselves with freezing cold water.

After doing this, they gather themselves into the main temple building. At exactly 10 p.m., the lights goes off and a priest throws 100 bundles of twigs and two lucky 20-centimeter-long shingi sticks into the crowd from a window four meters above.

Any of the 10,000 men, according to legends, who gets hold of one of the bundles and/or the two sticks is guaranteed a year of good fortune.

The 10,000 male members can be seen wearing a little undergarment called a "fundoshi" and a couple of white socks called "tabi." and the celebration hung on Saturday Japanese time, praises the gifts of reap, flourishing and ripeness, and is normally rehearsed by youngsters.