Obon festival, Nara
Japan
In the obon festival, folk get dressed in their evening robes and light candles that float on water. Kids stay up late in their "pajamas" and stare at the bright paper laterns placed everywhere.
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In the obon festival, folk get dressed in their evening robes and light candles that float on water. Kids stay up late in their "pajamas" and stare at the bright paper laterns placed everywhere.
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Connie writes:
When the Obon Fesitval is held in August people clean their houses and offer variety of food such as vegetables and fruits to their spirits of ancestors in front of a butsudan (Buddhost families altar). On the 13th chouchins are lit inside their houses , and people go to their family's to call their ancestors spirits back home.