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The Tagata Festival is Japan's most famous phallic festival. Here we see the giant phallus leaving the Shinmei Shrine. This is a video from a fieldwork visit for the book Japan’s Sexual Gods (Brill, 2014), where a full description may be found.

Japan’s Sexual Gods is an authoritative and original work that describes the unique deities represented by sexual objects in certain shrines. They include the god of the penis and others who are studied according to their origins and functions. Hundreds of sexual shrines still exist in spite of repression and range from the Tagata Shrine with its well-known giant festival phallus to small obscure places. Many also contain female sexual imagery and some phalluses act in a protective role. Phallic festivals proliferate, although many are inventions created purely for commercial reasons. The study concludes with an assessment of the place of sexual beliefs in modern Japan and includes 300 stunning original photographs, a glossary and a highly detailed map.