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Episode 446 - In Days of Old, There Was a Man

History of Japan

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The Tsucuma Festival

The tsucuma festival, if you are wondering, takes place on the first day of the fourth lunar month. It involves women following after the tukuma mikoshi rtable shrine, carrying one pot of water for each man they have been involved with in the past year. Omi province loves for i would see how many pots crown your girlish innocence - ariwaranonarihira. This is, in other words, a pretty unsubtle poetic insult.

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