The task involves getting almost naked in a restaurant/onsen (hot spring) in the town below.... splashing yourself with freezing water to cleanse yourself before running, in the snow, up about 400 steps to the temple. Once in the temple... all the men chant (yes... no women... and even my feminist views would not convince me to try and do this...) and push each other around while they try, many at a time, to climb this huge rope in order to sit in the rafters above and prove their Samurai spirit. Then they hang out in the rafters and chant until it gets too crowded and they climb down... only to run back down the steps and through the town where different Sake shops offer drinks to the crazy diapered men.
Anyways... here are the photos (and a sideways video):
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