WaiWai: Ancient rice festival has reputation smeared by ‘therapeutic’ facial cream claims
Blue on Dec 27 2005 | Filed under: Japan: Waiwai Archives
A Fukuoka festival dating back to ancient times is growing increasingly popular with Japan’s adult movie fans because it involves smearing gooey, white liquid all over the faces of participants, according to Cyzo (January).
For better or worse, words like “geisha” and “hara-kiri” have been joined in the global lexicon by “bukkake,” which has adapted a more specific meaning overseas rather that the original Japanese meaning of “to splatter.”