O-bon, Day of the Dead in Japan - A Japanese お 盆 in Japan ー あ る 帰 国 子女 の ブ ロ グ
It is said that those in the other world, back to "pass" a few days with family, friends ... and is an event that is celebrated in almost all the houses, temples and cemeteries. It is a sad tradition, is an opportunity to meet to dance, sing, eat and drink with family and those who "come" from beyond. edjoin
In most of the prefectures of Japan is celebrated according to the solar calendar, in parts of Tokyo is held in July and Okinawa, are still celebrated according to the lunar calendar. Dates
Each day has its significance and according to the prefecture, the custom is different. Several years ago I told them that cucumbers and eggplant with chopsticks prepared resembling a horse and a cow, because it is said that the ancestors come riding on a horse to meet as soon as possible with the family and when they leave, they do so in a cow slowly, as lamenting having to leave.
In Okinawa, the ancestors are not mounted on a horse, you are walking is why not prepare several things to do in other prefectures. Today I have no time to explain what is done tooooodo here, but I promise to do so in another post to see the difference. It is very interesting way to celebrate O-Bon in Okinawa.
And the photo below is an article from Okinawa Times newspaper. A family day of Okinawan unkee, edjoin dismissing the "family". In the center grandmother of 84, with their 8 children, 23 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. Four generations, 70 people celebrating the O-bon and thanking the ancestors from the room where the altar and the garden of the house (because we all could not enter).
13 Responses to "O-bon, Day of the Dead in Japan - お 盆"
In Cucuta Colombia, families usually visit the graves of their relatives and loved ones in some special dates, and take pictures with the tombstone as if it were a living person. 2 Tony81
Hi Nora, is an important and honorable celebration, spending for a few days to be with family and spend some time in honoring the memory of loved ones who are no longer present with us, and yet always remain in our hearts and memories .
Here in Spain, I imagine you can find the data, but the day that is celebrated on All Souls Day is November 1, known as the day of all saints, is a day that you visit and offer flowers the resting place of the dead.
Thanks for sharing Nora entry, and provides help to know a little more about this tradition and data in my case known. A fueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerte hug, and a good week for you also 3 From Mexico
The departure of loved ones (especially those who are closest to us) is always a difficult time, but it is inescapable. Dedicate one day to his memory edjoin I think is the least we can do for those loved ones who preceded us and that they must be in this world seem -we or not.
If I may lower the level of solemnity ... and this is a personal basis, I would think of my ancestors in a kind of great parliament where they guide us and sometimes we make them feel proud but also anxiety for our decisions. Did you see the Disney movie Mulan? edjoin Something I imagine.
As death faces says a lot about a culture. The Catalan tradition is to celebrate the day of the dead night of October 31. What in America is the "Haloween" ... In American culture, and increasingly in Europe by the influence of USA, it seems that the celebration focuses on enhancing the fear at the heart of the celebration. In Catalonia, even before that Catholicism appropriates the celebration, the return of the souls of the dead are commemorated and prepared and consumed special sweets, "els panellet" and chestnuts and sweet potatoes, and left a offering them in the windows to the souls who came to visit. On the same day, almost all the territories of Celtic roots (Galicia, northern Portugal, Asturias, chestnuts are consumed and there is a similar celebration. Your comment reminded me of a Japanese movie that I love "Bachelor" (Okuribito Yojiro Takita) and highly recommend it to those who do not know. 5 Veronica edjoin Garcia
Here in Mexico, the Day of the Dead is celebrated on November 2, 1 is for the dead children in most of the country gets used that day to go to the cemetery to visit the grave and spend the day there ... also altars are placed in homes, must have a certain number of steps each has meaning ... but that out of schools, they do south of the
It is said that those in the other world, back to "pass" a few days with family, friends ... and is an event that is celebrated in almost all the houses, temples and cemeteries. It is a sad tradition, is an opportunity to meet to dance, sing, eat and drink with family and those who "come" from beyond. edjoin
In most of the prefectures of Japan is celebrated according to the solar calendar, in parts of Tokyo is held in July and Okinawa, are still celebrated according to the lunar calendar. Dates
Each day has its significance and according to the prefecture, the custom is different. Several years ago I told them that cucumbers and eggplant with chopsticks prepared resembling a horse and a cow, because it is said that the ancestors come riding on a horse to meet as soon as possible with the family and when they leave, they do so in a cow slowly, as lamenting having to leave.
In Okinawa, the ancestors are not mounted on a horse, you are walking is why not prepare several things to do in other prefectures. Today I have no time to explain what is done tooooodo here, but I promise to do so in another post to see the difference. It is very interesting way to celebrate O-Bon in Okinawa.
And the photo below is an article from Okinawa Times newspaper. A family day of Okinawan unkee, edjoin dismissing the "family". In the center grandmother of 84, with their 8 children, 23 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. Four generations, 70 people celebrating the O-bon and thanking the ancestors from the room where the altar and the garden of the house (because we all could not enter).
13 Responses to "O-bon, Day of the Dead in Japan - お 盆"
In Cucuta Colombia, families usually visit the graves of their relatives and loved ones in some special dates, and take pictures with the tombstone as if it were a living person. 2 Tony81
Hi Nora, is an important and honorable celebration, spending for a few days to be with family and spend some time in honoring the memory of loved ones who are no longer present with us, and yet always remain in our hearts and memories .
Here in Spain, I imagine you can find the data, but the day that is celebrated on All Souls Day is November 1, known as the day of all saints, is a day that you visit and offer flowers the resting place of the dead.
Thanks for sharing Nora entry, and provides help to know a little more about this tradition and data in my case known. A fueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerte hug, and a good week for you also 3 From Mexico
The departure of loved ones (especially those who are closest to us) is always a difficult time, but it is inescapable. Dedicate one day to his memory edjoin I think is the least we can do for those loved ones who preceded us and that they must be in this world seem -we or not.
If I may lower the level of solemnity ... and this is a personal basis, I would think of my ancestors in a kind of great parliament where they guide us and sometimes we make them feel proud but also anxiety for our decisions. Did you see the Disney movie Mulan? edjoin Something I imagine.
As death faces says a lot about a culture. The Catalan tradition is to celebrate the day of the dead night of October 31. What in America is the "Haloween" ... In American culture, and increasingly in Europe by the influence of USA, it seems that the celebration focuses on enhancing the fear at the heart of the celebration. In Catalonia, even before that Catholicism appropriates the celebration, the return of the souls of the dead are commemorated and prepared and consumed special sweets, "els panellet" and chestnuts and sweet potatoes, and left a offering them in the windows to the souls who came to visit. On the same day, almost all the territories of Celtic roots (Galicia, northern Portugal, Asturias, chestnuts are consumed and there is a similar celebration. Your comment reminded me of a Japanese movie that I love "Bachelor" (Okuribito Yojiro Takita) and highly recommend it to those who do not know. 5 Veronica edjoin Garcia
Here in Mexico, the Day of the Dead is celebrated on November 2, 1 is for the dead children in most of the country gets used that day to go to the cemetery to visit the grave and spend the day there ... also altars are placed in homes, must have a certain number of steps each has meaning ... but that out of schools, they do south of the
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