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From OH! MATSURi, a film about Onbashira Matsuri (御柱祭), i.e., the "Sacred Pillars Festival": Every six years for 1,200 years, people in Japan's Nagano Prefecture risk life and limb to ride huge logs down a steep slope and transport the logs across a river to their destinations at branches of a shrine, where the logs are erected and remain in place until the next festival. For more information about the festival, see articles at The Asahi Shimbun and Japanese Architecture.
Crossposted at Flowers for Socrates.
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