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Originally Posted by Tom Bombadil
For picture 3, why do the Japanese carry their portable shrine almost naked? I am aware that it is some sort of tradition, but still, it has to start from somewhere.
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Fundoshi represents purity and dignity. This was taken to the point that according to folklore, people wouldn't drink from a well where a person not wearing a fundoshi had went in to get something that had fallen into that well.