Eastern Images
A Summer in Japan
2002

Kyoto


by Mischa Park-Doob
8/16/02
An enormous boat made of torches burns in the hills above Kyoto during the Daimonji Festival (five enormous symbols can be seen in the hills which ring the city; they are meant to help guide the souls of ancestors back up to heaven after their visit to earth during O-bon week).

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