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Sanja Matsuri festival – Yakuza day in pictures Sanja Matsuri festival is a celebration of the three legendary founders of Sensoji Temple in Tokyo’s Asakusa neighbourhood, with nearly two million people visiting during the three-day event.
Arnel Hecimovic
Main image: Heavily tattooed Japanese men wait for the arrival of a mikoshi (portable shrine) as they participate on the third and final day of Sanja Matsuri festival in Tokyo, Japan. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty ImagesMon 21 May 2018 04.15 EDT Last modified on Tue 22 May 2018 03.12 EDT
Participants carry a mikoshi (portable shrine) near the Asakusa shrine on the third and final day of the Sanja Matsuri festival in TokyoPhotograph: Carl Court/Getty Images
Share on Facebook The mikoshi bearers during the annual Sanja Matsuri festivalPhotograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Participants with one of three mikoshi outside Sensoji Temple in the Asakusa districtPhotograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Heavily tattooed Japanese men and a woman pose for photographsPhotograph: Carl Court/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Men chat in the street near Asakusa shrine wearing fundoshi (sumo underwear)Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Participants attend the annual Sanja Matsuri festival in the Asakusa district of TokyoPhotograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Men wait for the arrival of a mikoshi near the Asakusa shrinePhotograph: Carl Court/Getty Images
Share on Facebook A heavily tattooed Japanese woman poses for photographsPhotograph: Carl Court/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Participants pose to show off their traditional Japanese tattoos (Irezumi), related to the yakuzaPhotograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Policemen stand guard during the Sanja Matsuri festival in TokyoPhotograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Heavily tattooed Japanese men wait for the arrival of a mikoshi near the Asakusa shrinePhotograph: Carl Court/Getty Images
Share on Facebook A man with traditional Japanese tattoos (irezumi), related to the yakuza, speaks on his smartphonePhotograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images
Share on Facebook The portable mikoshi shrine borne aloft at the Sensoji TemplePhotograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
Share on Facebook People bearing a mikoshi at the Sensoji TemplePhotograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
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