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Lanterns Silently Floating on the River August 10, 2013 Toro Nagashi is a Japanese local event in which participants float toro or chochin (paper lanterns), and offerings down a river. This is primarily done during the obon season based on the belief that this guides the spirits of the departed, back to the other world.
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“Bon Odori is the festival where your deceased relatives come back to visit you for a time and then leave again. I was shooting the floating lanterns of the Yokosuka Bon Odori festival this evening. Text and photography by Jeff Laitila on Flickr