Tokyo worshippers throw ice water over themselves in Shinto ritual

A group of men bathed in ice water yesterday to purify their souls and wish for good fortune in the new year in a Japanese new year ritual.

Shinto believers gathered at the Kanda Myojin shrine in Tokyo to participate in the annual cold water endurance ceremony.

Photographs captured the moment men in white loincloths and headbands poured wooden pots filled freezing water over their nearly-naked bodies.

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