KYOTO –
Kyoto’s conventional Gozan Okuribi bonfire ceremony was held on the evening of August 16, lighting the skies above the traditional capital as residents marked the tip of the Obon season by sending off the spirits of their ancestors.
At 8 p.m., fires have been lit in ready hearths on Mount Nyoigatake within the metropolis’s Higashiyama space, steadily revealing an enormous character for “dai,” or “large,” measuring as a lot as 160 meters alongside one aspect.
Gozan Okuribi is a conventional Kyoto occasion held throughout Obon to bid farewell to the spirits of ancestors who’re believed to have returned to go to their households.
Fires have been lit on 5 mountains surrounding Kyoto, with the primary large character adopted by different formations together with “Myoho” and a boat-shaped design.
The glowing shows gently illuminated Kyoto’s summer time evening sky for round half-hour, whereas spectators quietly watched the fiery characters and mirrored on the normal Obon observance.
Source: YOMIURI