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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. Accompanying them Kagesi Toyama and Kiyoto Suyama, which will assist in the ceremonial festivities which take place over a 36 hour period in early July. The essence of the ceremony is to remove temporarily all impurities such as rational thought from ones body and mind. Kiso Mura, Japan.