Suddenly!

Things start to get rowdy! The shin-otoko is coming! To be honest, I wasn't actually sure what was going on at this point except that the crowd got a little noisier. The courtyard was so packed that I really couldn't see a thing! All of these next pictures are "point-and-prays" - I held the camera over my head and hoped that one or two would turn out! Incidentally, do you notice the steam rising from the crowd? No fog machines here, baby, that's the real deal - cold buckets of water on hot naked bodies! Yikes!