Mud, rain, loincloths: All about Japan's 200-year-old harvest wrestling ritual

Mud, rain, loincloths: All about Japan’s 200-year-old harvest wrestling ritual“Mud, rain, and loincloths: Japan’s 200-year-old harvest wrestling ritual” refers to a traditional festival centered around mud sumo, a Shinto-linked agricultural ceremony held in rural Japan to...

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