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Four Shinto priests, headed by Kazufumi Okutani, 71 and his son Masatsugu, 41 leave their family home and walk to the heart of the Yabuhara Sanctuary in Kiso Mura village to conduct the Grand Summer Purification ceremony. The essence of the ceremony is to remove temporarily all impurities such as rational thought from ones body and mind and allow ones sensitivities to be replenished as they are a constant source of Japanese cultural identity, Japan.