Priests and parishioners laugh out loud during the annual Laughter Festival held at Hiraoka Shrine in Higashi Osaka, Osaka Prefecture. The festival is said to originate in a legend in which the entrance to the cave where the Sun Goddess (Amaterasu Omikami) had gone into hiding was opened thanks to the beautiful prayers of Ame-no-Koyane-no Mikoto, Hiraoka Shrine's main deity; the dancing of Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto; and the laughter of the gods.
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