Fisherman adorned in female kimono and makeup dance on a ship decorated with Japanese cedar leaves and red and white banners off the coast of Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Thursday. The dance is part of a festival for Ose Shrine to pray for safety at sea and a bountiful catch, and is said to have first been performed to appease ocean deities.
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