大文字五山送り火

Today at Kyoto's Demachiyanagi 出町柳 Area was the Daimonji Festival 大文字五山送り火 . This festival is the official ending to the O-Bon お盆 period. I went with Yoshie and Troy to this festival, we arrived at 7:30 to stake out a good spot. And as you can see in the picture, it was hard to find a place. We were walking back for the Obligitory Matsuri 祭 alcohol run when the fires began, we were located at the Demachi Bridge 出町橋 and saw the first symbol 大 begin to light, it was a slow start but soon it was burning bright as we walked to get closer for better pictures. Now my camera really sucks at taking pictures at Night so I got maybe one good picture of it. As we got to the middle of the Bridge we noticed that we can see the last mountain being lit, 妙. I was quite please that we got to see 2 of the 5 mountains on fire. We stayed until Both burnt out and decided to go get some fireworks and lite them off at the Kamo River 鴨川 bank. Because of the apporaching Typhoon 台風 it was very windy and made it such a hassel, it was an interesting day to say the least. ^_^



Ho 法 Part of the Myoho 妙法 Combination, representing the Buddha's Law

Dai 大 "Big or Great"

**Bon is the Japanese Buddhist time where the spirits come back to earth remembering the Buddha's Death. Daimonji is the Festival to guide the spirits back to there realm.

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