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Shinto priests Masatsugu Okutani, 41 together with his father Kazufumi Okutani, 71 dressed in ceremonial clothes in preparation for the Summer Grand Purification ceremony at the Yabuhara Sanctuary. The essence of the ceremony is to remove temporarily all impurities such as rational thought from ones body and mind. Kiso Mura, Japan.