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Sanja Matsuri is a big festival.
It's in the Asakusa area of Tokyo.
The Shinto festival is about three local, human gods.
The men started Asakusa's Senso-ji temple.
It's the oldest Buddhist temple in Tokyo.
The religious festival lasts for three days.
People carry 'mikoshi' through the streets.
The mikoshi are holy taxis for these gods.
They take the mikoshi around Asakusa for good luck.
You can see lots of traditional tattoos at the festival.
In Japan, this is unusual.
Most people wear clothes over their tattoos.
Tattoos have a complicated history in Japan.
People marked criminals with them.
Traditional tattoos are expensive and painful.
Members of 'yakuza' criminal gangs covered their bodies in them.
But ordinary workers got tattoos too.
They were symbols of identity and good luck.
For over 70 years, tattoos became illegal.
Today, people can't show them in spas or gyms.
Many workers lived in Asakusa.
Tattoos are part of its local culture.
At the festival, people can show them in public, like Masaki Oyama.
Now, people's ideas are changing.
For some young people, tattoos aren't a problem.
Some businesses don't make people cover up their tattoos.
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