Wakayama, Jan 19 (News On Japan) –
A fireplace pageant was held on January seventeenth at Cape Shionomisaki in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, the southernmost level of Honshu, the place organizers set ablaze the roughly 100,000-square-meter “Boro no Shiba” grassland overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
As nightfall approached, members of the kyudo membership at Wakayama Prefectural Kushimoto Koza High School fired flaming arrows to ignite the sector, and the spreading flames illuminated the shoreline in a surreal, dreamlike scene.
The native tourism affiliation has turned the standard upkeep apply of burning outdated grass right into a public occasion, utilizing the managed hearth to eradicate pests and encourage the expansion of recent new shoots.
Source: Kyodo