Japan, Yukkake festival in Yugawara city | Nicolas Datiche Photographer Japan Tokyo

Japan, Yukkake festival in Yugawara city

People wait for the mikoshi (portable shrine) to spray water with bucket during Yukake festival on May 26, 2018, in Yugawara, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. Yugawara festival also knows as ‘Yukake festival’, an annual festival, where townspeople and tourists line the streets with huge buckets of hot water (hence the name, yukakematsuri) and douse the passing omikoshi (made up in the form of traditional onsen style buckets) and their carriers with as much as water as they can. Tokyo, JAPAN 26 May 2018.

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People wait for the mikoshi (portable shrine) to spray water with bucket during Yukake festival on May 26, 2018, in Yugawara, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. Yugawara festival also knows as ‘Yukake festival’, an annual festival, where townspeople and tourists line the streets with huge buckets of hot water (hence the name, yukakematsuri) and douse the passing omikoshi (made up in the form of traditional onsen style buckets) and their carriers with as much as water as they can. Tokyo, JAPAN 26 May 2018.