Ice bathing

January 14, 2018

Tokyo- Men wearing only loincloths bath in ice-cold water during a ceremony at Teppozu Inari Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, 14 January 2018.

Some hundred participants took part in this ice water endurance purification ceremony in an effort to purify their body and soul for the new year. Jiji Press

Men wearing only loincloths bath in ice-cold water during a ceremony at Teppozu Inari Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, 14 January 2018.