A Japan Photo per Day – Old Japanese stories, the Ghost from Kencho-ji

24 March 2011 on Muza-chan's Gate to Japan Posted in: Culture & Traditions    

During Obon, all Buddhist temples in Japan perform segaki ("feeding the hungry ghosts"), a ritual for helping gaki, the ghosts suffering by “insatiable hunger". But at the Kencho-ji Temple in Kamakura, after segaki there...
 
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