Dairokuten-no-Hadaka Matsuri - Mud Slinging Festival Video

Festival Location: Yotsukaido, Japan

Festival Type(s): Bizarre Festivals, Harvest Festivals, Traditional Festivals

Japan's festivals - or matsuris in the local lingo - often involve grown men dressed in nothing more than adult nappies doing strange things! And in that respect, the Dairokuten-no-Hadaka Matsuri or Mud Slinging Festival does not disappoint.

Each February participants gather in Yotsukaido in the Chiba Prefecture in Japan to strip down, get knee deep in frigid water and fling what they find at their feet at each other.