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Known for capturing traditional fighting and sporting festivals in Japan and beyond, photographer Keijiro Kai’s latest exhibition, Clothed in Sunny Finery, at Zen Foto Gallery, showcases work shot at Hadaka Matsuri (Naked Festivals) across Japan where participants shed most of their clothing and collide with each other in a throng of chaotic bodies. “As you can see, the participants are naked,” writes Kai. “Casting off their clothes and gaining control of their body, the naked participants roar, dance, spill their sweat and odor upon each other, and collide with each other flesh against flesh.