それぞれの地方や家庭に様々なしきたりがあると思いますが、うちではお盆に仏さまにお供えしたものを８月１６日の早朝にお寺に納めにいきます。ご先祖の魂は、あの世に戻った順番に高い位につけるから、早くこの世を出発させてあげるのがいいのだという説を採っているからです。

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There must be thousands of different traditional practices to each region and family. In our home, very early morning on August 16 every year, I entrust what we have offered on our family altar during the Bon period to a nearby temple, following a theory that we should let our ancestors’ souls depart as early as possible on that morning because they would take a higher position in another world according to the order they arrive there.

Summer heat lingering over/

Brow of the hill/

Great Bonfire Event/

Translation and calligraphy by Tomoko