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  • A man pours soju, a South Korean traditional alcoholic drink, at the Cheongdo Bullfighting Festival in Cheongdo, South Korea, April 20, 2012. Bulls fight at the 2012 Cheongdo Bullfighting Festival in Cheongdo, South Korea.
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  • MAY 28, 2017 -  Dancers in traditional dress wait to perform at the Yosakoi-in-Oidensai festival in Toyokawa, Japan. Yosakoi incorporates traditional Japanese dance movements with modern pop music.  (Photo by Ben Weller/AFLO) (JAPAN) [UHU]
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  • Women wearing traditional clothing and carrying umbrellas walk in a parade at the 2015 Nagoya Festival in Nagoya, Japan. Ben Weller is a photographer based in Nagoya, Japan.
    Nagoya Festival
  • Traditional green tea and sweets served at a temple in Kyoto, Japan
    Traditional Green Tea in Kyoto
  • A traditional drumming group performs at Oni Matsuri, a demon festival at Akumi Kanbe Shinmeisha Shrine in Toyohashi, Japan. Oni Matsuri, in which two people dressed as a goblin and a demon perform a choreographed battle, celebrates the coming of Spring, and people are showered with sweets and flour. Getting covered with flour is considered especially lucky, as festival lore says it will keep you healthy in the summer months.
    Oni Matsuri_22.jpg
  • Japanese boys dressed in traditional Shinto clothing during Oni Matsuri, a demon festival at Akumi Kanbe Shinmeisha Shrine in Toyohashi, Japan. Oni Matsuri, in which two people dressed as a goblin and a demon perform a choreographed battle, celebrates the coming of Spring, and people are showered with sweets and flour. Getting covered with flour is considered especially lucky, as festival lore says it will keep you healthy in the summer months.
    Oni Matsuri_08.jpg
  • Japanese boys dressed in traditional Shinto clothing during Oni Matsuri, a demon festival at Akumi Kanbe Shinmeisha Shrine in Toyohashi, Japan. Oni Matsuri, in which two people dressed as a goblin and a demon perform a choreographed battle, celebrates the coming of Spring, and people are showered with sweets and flour. Getting covered with flour is considered especially lucky, as festival lore says it will keep you healthy in the summer months.
    Oni Matsuri
  • Traditional Japanese umbrellas called "wagasa" at the Nagoya Festival in Nagoya, Japan.
    Wagasa
  • A multiple exposure image of traditional drumming Oni Matsuri, a demon festival at Akumi Kanbe Shinmeisha Shrine in Toyohashi, Japan. Oni Matsuri, in which two people dressed as a goblin and a demon perform a choreographed battle, celebrates the coming of Spring, and people are showered with sweets and flour. Getting covered with flour is considered especially lucky, as custom says it will keep you healthy in the summer months.
    Traditional Japanese Drumming
  • A traditional drumming group performs at Oni Matsuri, a demon festival at Akumi Kanbe Shinmeisha Shrine in Toyohashi, Japan. Oni Matsuri, in which two people dressed as a goblin and a demon perform a choreographed battle, celebrates the coming of Spring, and people are showered with sweets and flour. Getting covered with flour is considered especially lucky, as festival lore says it will keep you healthy in the summer months.
    Oni Matsuri_20.jpg
  • People play traditional wooden flutes during Oni Matsuri, a demon festival at Akumi Kanbe Shinmeisha Shrine in Toyohashi, Japan. Oni Matsuri, in which two people dressed as a goblin and a demon perform a choreographed battle, celebrates the coming of Spring, and people are showered with sweets and flour. Getting covered with flour is considered especially lucky, as custom says it will keep you healthy in the summer months.
    Oni Matsuri_18.jpg
  • Young Malaysian women in traditional headscarves pose for the camera in Malacca, Malaysia.
    Malacca
  • A girl in traditional dress at the Nagoya Festival in Nagoya, Japan.
    Nagoya Matsuri.jpg
  • People try to catch rice cakes thrown from above during Honen-sai, a fertility festival at Tagata Shrine in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The traditional Shinto festival celebrates fertility and a bountiful harvest. Ben Weller is a photographer based in Nagoya, Japan.
    Japan_Penis_Festival_04.jpg
  • Men carry a wooden phallus on a portable shrine during Honen-sai, a fertility festival at Tagata Shrine in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The traditional Shinto festival celebrates fertility and a bountiful harvest. The principal offering during the festival is a large wooden phallus. Each year a craftsman carves a new phallus from a Japanese cypress tree. It measures almost 2.4 meters long and weighs 280kg. Ben Weller is a photographer based in Nagoya, Japan.
    Japan_Penis_Festival_09.jpg
  • A traditional drumming group performs at Oni Matsuri, a demon festival at Akumi Kanbe Shinmeisha Shrine in Toyohashi, Japan. Oni Matsuri, in which two people dressed as a goblin and a demon perform a choreographed battle, celebrates the coming of Spring, and people are showered with sweets and flour. Getting covered with flour is considered especially lucky, as festival lore says it will keep you healthy in the summer months.
    Oni Matsuri_23.jpg
  • A traditional drumming group performs at Oni Matsuri, a demon festival at Akumi Kanbe Shinmeisha Shrine in Toyohashi, Japan. Oni Matsuri, in which two people dressed as a goblin and a demon perform a choreographed battle, celebrates the coming of Spring, and people are showered with sweets and flour. Getting covered with flour is considered especially lucky, as festival lore says it will keep you healthy in the summer months.
    Oni Matsuri_19.jpg
  • Park Chong-in stands next to one of his bulls in the waiting area at the Cheongdo Bullfighting Festival in Cheongdo, South Korea, April 20, 2012. Bulls fight at the 2012 Cheongdo Bullfighting Festival in Cheongdo, South Korea.
    cheongdo_bullfighting_korea_002.jpg
  • A bull trainer urges on his bull during a fight at the Cheongdo Bullfighting Festival in Cheongdo, South Korea, April 20, 2012. Bulls fight at the 2012 Cheongdo Bullfighting Festival in Cheongdo, South Korea.
    cheongdo_bullfighting_korea_005.jpg
  • Bull trainers move their bulls into position at the start of a fight at the Cheongdo Bullfighting Festival in Cheongdo, South Korea, April 20, 2012. Bulls fight at the 2012 Cheongdo Bullfighting Festival in Cheongdo, South Korea.
    cheongdo_bullfighting_korea_006.jpg
  • A trainer leads his bull into the ring at the Cheongdo Bullfighting Festival in Cheongdo, South Korea, April 20, 2012. Bulls fight at the 2012 Cheongdo Bullfighting Festival in Cheongdo, South Korea.
    cheongdo_bullfighting_korea_010.jpg
  • Cheongdo Bullfighting Festival in Cheongdo, South Korea, April 20, 2012. Bulls fight at the 2012 Cheongdo Bullfighting Festival in Cheongdo, South Korea.
    cheongdo_bullfighting_korea_003.jpg
  • Bulls fight at the Cheongdo Bullfighting Festival in Cheongdo, South Korea, April 20, 2012. Bulls fight at the 2012 Cheongdo Bullfighting Festival in Cheongdo, South Korea.
    cheongdo_bullfighting_korea_004.jpg
  • FEBRUARY 11, 2018 - Men wearing loincloths march to the sea during Toba-no-Hi-matsuri, a fire festival held annually at Toba Shinmeisha, a Shinto shrine in Nishio, Japan. <br />
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The festival begins with men walking from the shrine to the sea, and standing in the ocean wearing only loincloths as part of a purification ritual.<br />
<br />
The celebration culminates with the burning of torches built from bamboo and pampas grass. The burning of the torches allows the locals to divine the year’s weather and harvest.<br />
<br />
(Photo by Ben Weller/AFLO) (JAPAN) [UHU]
    Toba Fire Festival_02.tif
  • Sumo trainees at Niigata Kaiyo High School, Nou, Itoigawa, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Ben Weller for Lufthsana Magazin
    Sumo_03.jpg
  • The day is national holiday, and people visit temples around the country to pray, make offerings, and enjoy the colorful paper lanterns. Buddhism holds a strong cultural influence in South Korea, and about one quarter of the population identifies as Buddhist.
    beomeosa_monk_drumming-4262.jpg
  • A couple in formal wedding attire returns home after a family member's wedding in Busan, South Korea. Ben Weller is a photographer in Nagoya, Japan.
    Korea_Busan_061.jpg
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  • Female police officers patrol a mountain ridge as activists attempted to reach the site of a high voltage transmission tower under construction near Miryang, South Korea.
    Miryang_Korea_04.jpg
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  • A girl writes in chalk in front of a police line during a demonstration against the state electrical utility in Miryang, South Korea.
    Miryang_Korea_01.jpg
  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_18.jpg
  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_17.jpg
  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_16.jpg
  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_15.jpg
  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_13.jpg
  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_12.jpg
  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_11.jpg
  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_08.jpg
  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_06.jpg
  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_03.jpg
  • Thousands of people came to Jindo, South Korea, to see the Jindo "Miracle" Sea Festival. Once a year, a 2.8km landbridge is exposed due to low tides. People cross the landbridge from Jindo to a neighboring islet.
    Jindo_04.jpg
  • Thousands of people came to Jindo, South Korea, to see the Jindo "Miracle" Sea Festival. Once a year, a 2.8km landbridge is exposed due to low tides. People cross the landbridge from Jindo to a neighboring islet.
    jindo_miracle_sea_festival_02.jpg
  • Thousands of people came to Jindo, South Korea, to see the Jindo "Miracle" Sea Festival. Once a year, a 2.8km landbridge is exposed due to low tides. People cross the landbridge from Jindo to a neighboring islet.
    jindo_miracle_sea_festival_11.jpg
  • Thousands of people came to Jindo, South Korea, to see the Jindo "Miracle" Sea Festival. Once a year, a 2.8km landbridge is exposed due to low tides. People cross the landbridge from Jindo to a neighboring islet.
    jindo_miracle_sea_festival_06.jpg
  • Thousands of people came to Jindo, South Korea, to see the Jindo "Miracle" Sea Festival. Once a year, a 2.8km landbridge is exposed due to low tides. People cross the landbridge from Jindo to a neighboring islet.
    Jindo_01.jpg
  • Thousands of people came to Jindo, South Korea, to see the Jindo "Miracle" Sea Festival. Once a year, a 2.8km landbridge is exposed due to low tides. People cross the landbridge from Jindo to a neighboring islet.
    jindo_miracle_sea_festival_15.jpg
  • Thousands of people came to Jindo, South Korea, to see the Jindo "Miracle" Sea Festival. Once a year, a 2.8km landbridge is exposed due to low tides. People cross the landbridge from Jindo to a neighboring islet.
    jindo_miracle_sea_festival_17.jpg
  • Thousands of people came to Jindo, South Korea, to see the Jindo "Miracle" Sea Festival. Once a year, a 2.8km landbridge is exposed due to low tides. People cross the landbridge from Jindo to a neighboring islet.
    jindo_miracle_sea_festival_13.jpg
  • FEBRUARY 11, 2018 - Men wearing loincloths march to the sea during Toba-no-Hi-matsuri, a fire festival held annually at Toba Shinmeisha, a Shinto shrine in Nishio, Japan. <br />
<br />
The festival begins with men walking from the shrine to the sea, and standing in the ocean wearing only loincloths as part of a purification ritual.<br />
<br />
The celebration culminates with the burning of torches built from bamboo and pampas grass. The burning of the torches allows the locals to divine the year’s weather and harvest.<br />
<br />
(Photo by Ben Weller/AFLO) (JAPAN) [UHU]
    Toba Fire Festival_03.jpg
  • Sumo trainees at Niigata Kaiyo High School, Nou, Itoigawa, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Ben Weller for Lufthsana Magazin
    Sumo_01.jpg
  • Sumo trainees at Niigata Kaiyo High School, Nou, Itoigawa, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Ben Weller for Lufthsana Magazin
    Sumo_02.jpg
  • JANUARY 15, 2016 -  during the Hosha Shinji ritual at Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya, Japan. Hosha Shinji is a Shinto archery ritual meant to bring about a good crop and fortune. (Photo by Ben Weller/AFLO) (JAPAN) [UHU] Ben Weller is a photographer based in Nagoya, Japan.
    Shinto Archery
  • The day is national holiday, and people visit temples around the country to pray, make offerings, and enjoy the colorful paper lanterns. Buddhism holds a strong cultural influence in South Korea, and about one quarter of the population identifies as Buddhist.
    beomeosa_monk_drumming-4219.jpg
  • The day is national holiday, and people visit temples around the country to pray, make offerings, and enjoy the colorful paper lanterns. Buddhism holds a strong cultural influence in South Korea, and about one quarter of the population identifies as Buddhist.
    beomeosa_monk_drumming-4225.jpg
  • The day is national holiday, and people visit temples around the country to pray, make offerings, and enjoy the colorful paper lanterns. Buddhism holds a strong cultural influence in South Korea, and about one quarter of the population identifies as Buddhist.
    beomeosa_monk_drumming-4222.jpg
  • A monk performs in a drumming ceremony at Beomeosa Temple on Buddha's Birthday. The day is a national holiday, and people visit temples around the country to pray and make offerings. Buddhism maintains a strong cultural influence in South Korea, and about one quarter of the population identifies as Buddhist.
    beomeosa_monk_drumming-.jpg
  • The day is national holiday, and people visit temples around the country to pray, make offerings, and enjoy the colorful paper lanterns. Buddhism holds a strong cultural influence in South Korea, and about one quarter of the population identifies as Buddhist.
    Beomeosa monk drumming--multiple exp..sure
  • A monk performs in a drum ceremony at Beomeosa Temple in Busan on Buddha's Birthday, May 6, 2014. The day is a national holiday, and people visit temples around the country to pray and make offerings. Buddhism holds a strong cultural influence in South Korea, and about one quarter of the population identifies as Buddhist. Ben Weller is a photographer in Nagoya, Japan.
    Korea_Busan_062
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  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_24.jpg
  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_23.jpg
  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_22.jpg
  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_21.jpg
  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_20.jpg
  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_19.jpg
  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_09.jpg
  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_07.jpg
  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_04.jpg
  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_02.jpg
  • A festival celebrating the Kotaijingu shrine in Fujisawa, Japan.
    japan shrine festival_01.jpg
  • Thousands of people came to Jindo, South Korea, to see the Jindo "Miracle" Sea Festival. Once a year, a 2.8km landbridge is exposed due to low tides. People cross the landbridge from Jindo to a neighboring islet.
    Jindo_06.jpg
  • Thousands of people came to Jindo, South Korea, to see the Jindo "Miracle" Sea Festival. Once a year, a 2.8km landbridge is exposed due to low tides. People cross the landbridge from Jindo to a neighboring islet.
    Jindo_08.jpg
  • Thousands of people came to Jindo, South Korea, to see the Jindo "Miracle" Sea Festival. Once a year, a 2.8km landbridge is exposed due to low tides. People cross the landbridge from Jindo to a neighboring islet.
    Jindo_07.jpg
  • Thousands of people came to Jindo, South Korea, to see the Jindo "Miracle" Sea Festival. Once a year, a 2.8km landbridge is exposed due to low tides. People cross the landbridge from Jindo to a neighboring islet.
    Jindo_05.jpg
  • Thousands of people came to Jindo, South Korea, to see the Jindo "Miracle" Sea Festival. Once a year, a 2.8km landbridge is exposed due to low tides. People cross the landbridge from Jindo to a neighboring islet.
    Jindo_02.jpg
  • Thousands of people came to Jindo, South Korea, to see the Jindo "Miracle" Sea Festival. Once a year, a 2.8km landbridge is exposed due to low tides. People cross the landbridge from Jindo to a neighboring islet.
    jindo_miracle_sea_festival_19.jpg
  • Thousands of people came to Jindo, South Korea, to see the Jindo "Miracle" Sea Festival. Once a year, a 2.8km landbridge is exposed due to low tides. People cross the landbridge from Jindo to a neighboring islet.
    Jindo_02.jpg
  • Thousands of people came to Jindo, South Korea, to see the Jindo "Miracle" Sea Festival. Once a year, a 2.8km landbridge is exposed due to low tides. People cross the landbridge from Jindo to a neighboring islet.
    jindo_miracle_sea_festival_10.jpg
  • FEBRUARY 11, 2018 - Men wearing loincloths march to the sea during Toba-no-Hi-matsuri, a fire festival held annually at Toba Shinmeisha, a Shinto shrine in Nishio, Japan. <br />
<br />
The festival begins with men walking from the shrine to the sea, and standing in the ocean wearing only loincloths as part of a purification ritual.<br />
<br />
The celebration culminates with the burning of torches built from bamboo and pampas grass. The burning of the torches allows the locals to divine the year’s weather and harvest.<br />
<br />
(Photo by Ben Weller/AFLO) (JAPAN) [UHU]
    Toba Fire Festival_01.jpg
  • Toba-no-Hi-matsuri, a fire festival held annually at Toba Shinmeisha, a Shinto shrine in Nishio, Japan. <br />
<br />
The festival begins with men walking from the shrine to the sea, and standing in the ocean wearing only loincloths as part of a purification ritual.<br />
<br />
The celebration culminates with the burning of torches built from bamboo and pampas grass. The burning of the torches allows the locals to divine the year’s weather and harvest. Ben Weller is a photographer in Nagoya, Japan.
    Toba Fire Festival
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