With their portable shrines and pots of sake, Japanese festivals are generally fairly boisterous affairs, but for Kawasaki’s annual fertility festival (the Kanamara Matsuri) at Hachiman-gu Shrine, bawdy could be deemed a far more accurate description — the marvelling at massive members,

Also, for people a bit peckish, there’s the usual fare of noodles and nibbles on offer, although for those particularly partial, a pecker or even a p**y may also be purchased.

The morning’s pe**s-based proceedings eventually building up to an incredible climax, that sees the colossal c***s carted through the crowd. Which, wherever one lives, is something seldom seen it has to be said.

Although unfortunately, with such a lot of effort going in to getting things up and running, it only comes once a year.