Good Road for the Living and the Dead: Niino Bon Odori, Festival to Send Off the Gods

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1991

36 minutes

Summary

On the nights of the 14th, 15th, and 16th of August, the obon festival takes over the streets of the Niino community of Nagano Prefecture. At its conclusion, a practitioner of shugendo, a syncretic tradition combining elements of Buddhism and Shinto, serves as priest to send off the spirits of ancestors past that have journeyed back for Obon as well as the new spirits of those deceased within the past year. The spirits ride the flames of faceted lanterns that are lit and drift off into the eastern sky.

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Original Name生者と死者のかよい路 新野の盆おどり 神送りの行事 (Good Road for the Living and the Dead: Niino Bon Odori, Festival to Send Off the Gods)

StatusReleased: 33 years ago
October 4, 1991

Language日本語

Spoken Languages日本語

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